[Tinyos-devel] Unified radio HIL

[Miklos Maroti]

Sorry: I wanted to write platform independent MACs.

On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 1:09 PM, Miklos Maroti<mmaroti at math.u-szeged.hu> wrote:
> 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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