[sim-wg] TOSSIM Live Extensions

[Chad Metcalf]

Hello everyone,

Sorry I've been off the radar of late. Work, school and moving has
been hard. But I have good news the extensions I have been working on
are finally available for review. I need to commit some changes to the
main TOSSIM files before the extension will work with TOSSIM. Given
the upcoming release these changes may have to wait for a week or so.
If you can't wait let me know and I'll send you a patch.

You'll find the extension in the csm directory of tinyos-2.x-contrib.
There is a readme that describes what all you'll need to do to use the
extensions.

Basically, you need to set an env var and run a make install command.
And then its just:

make micaz sim-sf

If you don't want to use the extensions use the old command:

make micaz sim

The extensions give you a sf for the motes in simulation which works
with the C, CPP, Java, or Python SDKs. There is also a simple Throttle
which allows the simulation to run in wall time. This makes a TOSSIM
instance more or less like a testbed of sorts.

There are some examples with the code to show how the extensions are
used. My lab is interested in tool development and we're thinking
these extensions are going to be useful for us, hopefully others will
like them as well.

Cheers
Chad

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