[Tinyos Core WG] Meeting: 10/17

[Philip Levis]

On Oct 17, 2007, at 10:50 AM, Jan Beutel wrote:

> Sentilla Point currently runs on Texas Instruments (NYSE: TXN) MSP430
> microprocessors, which are miniature computers (about the size of a
> dime) and engineered for very low power consumption, allowing them  
> to be
> deployed at massive scale throughout industry applications.
>
> found on:
>
> http://www.sentilla.com/pr-20071016.html
>
>

Interesting. It would be cool to know whether they actually run a  
stripped down VM (e.g., squawk-like) or translate Java programs into  
some intermediate format for actual mote execution. Of course, that's  
probably a boundary they want to keep flexible, and having a higher- 
level programming interface makes it much easier to do so.

Phil