[Tinyos-host-mote-wg] Re: [Tinyos-2.0wg] Re: TinyOS 2.x potentiometers

Joe Polastre joe.polastre at gmail.com
Mon May 30 12:48:29 PDT 2005


Understandable.  We need a way to mark interfaces that we'd like to
return to later.  Maybe we put them in tinyos-2.x/tos/interfaces/beta
or something to start with?  I've been guilty of the same blind
commits to tos/interfaces

-Joe

On 5/30/05, Kevin Klues <klues at tkn.tu-berlin.de> wrote:
> Of course we can discuss this.... I just needed to get something in
> there so that I could get the potentiometer up and running for use with
> the TDA5250 RF Power settings.  I agree that this interface is way out
> of datemyself, but I was trying to get somehing written so that the
> radio component will be somewhat complete for the deadline of the 2nd.
> Maybe I shouldn't have put it in the main interfaces directory already
> without it having been discussed, but it can always be modified once we
> come up with an agreed upon interface.
> 
> Kevin
> 
> Joe Polastre wrote:
> 
> >Whoa, hold on there tiger.  The Pot interface is painfully out of
> >date.  I'd recommend having a discussion about how we want to evolve
> >this...  For example, how do you do "set()" without making it split
> >phase with the AD5200 or AD5242???
> >
> >I have a version that we've been using for the AD5242 in
> >tinyos-1.x/beta/chips/AD524X/AD5242.nc
> >and
> >tinyos-1.x/beta/platform/tsb/Potentiometer.nc
> >
> >Neither of these interfaces are very good (for example, they don't
> >have increase() or decrease()), but this is an interface I use a lot
> >and I'd rather get it right than just copying over the old 1.x
> >version.
> >
> >Can we discuss this?
> >
> >-Joe
> >
> >On 5/30/05, Kevin Klues <klueska at users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
> >
> >
> >>Update of /cvsroot/tinyos/tinyos-2.x/tos/interfaces
> >>In directory sc8-pr-cvs1.sourceforge.net:/tmp/cvs-serv15296/tos/interfaces
> >>
> >>Added Files:
> >>      Tag: tinyos-2_0_devel-BRANCH
> >>        Pot.nc
> >>Log Message:
> >>Potentiometer interface.  Adapted from Tinyos1.x interface
> >>
> >>--- NEW FILE: Pot.nc ---
> >>// $Id: Pot.nc,v 1.1.2.1 2005/05/30 19:32:30 klueska Exp $
> >>
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> >>/*
> >> * Authors:             Jason Hill, David Gay, Philip Levis
> >> * Date last modified:  8/20/02
> >> */
> >>
> >>/**
> >> * @author Jason Hill
> >> * @author David Gay
> >> * @author Philip Levis
> >> * @author Kevin Klues -- modified for TinyOS-2.x
> >> */
> >>
> >>interface Pot {
> >>    /**
> >>     * Initialize the potentiometer and set it to a specified value.
> >>     * @param initialSetting The initial value for setting of the
> >>                 * potentiometer
> >>     * @return Returns SUCCESS upon successful initialization.
> >>     */
> >>  command error_t init(uint8_t initialSetting);
> >>
> >>    /**
> >>     * Set the potentiometer value
> >>     * @param setting The new value of the potentiometer.
> >>     * @return Returns SUCCESS if the setting was successful.  The operation
> >>     * returns FAIL if the component has not been initialized or the desired
> >>     * setting is outside of the valid range.
> >>     */
> >>  async command error_t set(uint8_t setting);
> >>
> >>    /**
> >>     * Increment the potentiometer value by 1. This function proves to be
> >>     * quite useful in active potentiometer control scenarios.
> >>     * @return Returns SUCCESS if the increment was successful. Returns FAIL
> >>     * if the component has not been initialized or if the potentiometer
> >>     * cannot be incremented further.
> >>     */
> >>  async command error_t increase();
> >>
> >>    /**
> >>     * Decrement the potentiometer value by 1. This function proves to be
> >>     * quite useful in active potentiometer control scenarios.
> >>     * @return Returns SUCCESS if the decrement was successful. Returns FAIL
> >>     * if the component has not been initialized or if the potentiometer
> >>     * cannot be decremented further.
> >>     */
> >>  async command error_t decrease();
> >>
> >>    /**
> >>     * Return the current setting of the potentiometer.
> >>     * @return An unsigned 8-bit value denoting the current setting of the
> >>     * potentiometer.
> >>     */
> >>  async command uint8_t get();
> >>}
> >>
> >>
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