[Tinyos] Announce: Avrora Beta 1.6.0 Released

[Ben L. Titzer]

The UCLA Compilers group has just completed more than seven months of  
work improving and extending the Avrora AVR and Mica2 sensor network  
simulator. We've improved nearly every aspect of simulation, added  
more instrumentation capabilities, more hardware support, and better  
performance. Avrora is available for download on our site at:

http://compilers.cs.ucla.edu/avrora

Source and binary distributions are now available. Some of the new  
features in this release are:

- Support for the ATMega16 and ATMega32 microcontrollers
- An interactive GUI for viewing the results of simulation
- An automatically generated disassembler
- Support for in-system reprogramming as used in Deluge and SOS
- MICA2: Support for the light sensor and replaying sensor data
- MICA2: The external 512kb flash
- Serial monitor for connecting the simulated serial port to a socket

Many improved features include:

- More instrumentation points, including IO registers, memory,  
interrupts, and finite state machines
- Improved monitors, including for interrupts, calls, IO register  
updates, and sensor network packets
- Slight performance improvements for most applications
- Improved, more extensible Java API
- More extensive built-in help system and online documentation
- Fixed several important bugs reported by users
- Improved and simplified radio functionality
- More extensive automated test cases

If you are currently using Avrora, you should upgrade immediately.  
The new release offers across-the-board improvements to all major  
subsystems. If you are doing development in Avrora, there will soon  
be a tag put into CVS for the Beta 1.6.0 branch and development will  
be moved to the 1.7.x series.

In 1.7.x we will be working on:

- Support for the micaZ platform
- Porting to MSP430 and Tmote Sky
- Reorganized codebase and improved testing utilities
- Extensive GUI support

Thanks to our user community for so many helpful suggestions!

-Ben Titzer

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