[TinyOS 1.x] Lesson1

This blog series "TinyOS 1.x" is for helping me to remember the knowledge that I have learned and forget it later since it's not an everyday used language (And also because I still didn't get all its concepts) You know today is the third time that I will start read its tutorial again. What I wanna tell you is that this blog series may be useless for you guy because it's just for my memo. Let's start then...

• There is an interface. That the users must implement events and the provider must implement commands.
• An application consists of components. Each component has configuration(wiring) and module(implementing)
• There're 2 threads of execution - tasks(not preempt another), Hardware event handlers(preempt another) declared with async keyword.
• In configuration file
  

configuration [name]{}
implementation {
[components declaration]
[wiring] Main.StdControl -> ??.StdControl; ..
}

• Main.StdControl.init() is the first executing command of any application.
• StdControl interface is at tos/interfaces/StdControl.nc
• Timer is at tos/interfaces/Timer.nc
• SingleTimer is at tos/lib/SingleTimer.nc
• BlinkM.Leds -> LedsC is really shorthand for BlinkM.Leds -> LedsC.Leds
• In module file

module [name]{
provides{[interface that is wired in configuration]}
uses{[interface that wire to in configuration]}
}
implementation{
command..
event..
..
}

• Timer is an interface for fire event at interval time

this blog is summarized form TinyOS Tutorial Lesson 1: Getting Started with TinyOS and nesC