[Tinyos-devel] ATmega128 UartByte Broken

[Philip Levis]

On Nov 9, 2007, at 8:35 AM, David Moss wrote:

> Yet another bug report for someone to look at when there’s time.
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> The ATmega128 UartByte interface appears to be broken, and has been  
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> http://www.lavalampmotemasters.com/reports/html/1_micaz/tests/ 
> tinyos-2/x/tos/lib/serial/9_TestUartByte.html
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> Compare this to the MSP430 UartByte interface:
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> http://www.lavalampmotemasters.com/reports/html/1_telosb/tests/ 
> tinyos-2/x/tos/lib/serial/22_TestUartByte.html
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> The test here simply jacks a few bytes (in the form of a packet)  
> into the UartByte interface.  Those bytes are interpreted as a  
> packet by the computer, telling the computer the test passed.  When  
> the computer doesn’t get the message, the test fails by timing out,  
> signifying a broken UartByte interface.
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> -David
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Hm. It looks like Alec Woo and Jonathan Hui (cc'd) are the developers.

Phil