[Tinyos-devel] Unified radio HIL

[Miklos Maroti]

Hi Laurynas,

I plan to port the RF230 framework to other chips, specifically the
CC2420 and SX1211, and also do a serial backend. Everything can stay
the same there, only the driver (3 files) need to be changed. I think
that framework is quite robust, and would be possible to write
platform specific MACs.

Miklos

On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 11:49 AM, Laurynas
Riliskis<laurynas.riliskis at ltu.se> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have been using using TinyOS 2.x quite heavily for the past 6 month.
> There is a lot of excellent thing, and pretty solutions. However there
> is things that can be improved, and are the design choice is not clear
> for me.
> Most eye-catching, for me, is the absence of unified HIL/HAL for radio
> chips. There are four radio chip implementations each of them
> implementing custom packet, IEEE 802.15.4, link and so on.
> Therefore, for example, implementing unified MAC is not possible
> without getting hands-on physical layer.
> Almost all of these radio chips are PHY IEEE 802.15.4 compatible.
> Therefore it would be nice to have the unified PHY HIL. For the chips
> that have extra futures it would be possible to provide additional
> interface and the futures would not be waisted.
> Is there any plans for the unified radio HIL?
>
> Regards
> Laurynas
>
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