SHAMELESS EFI332 PROMOTION - was Re: ECUs

[Andrew Dennison]

On 19 Jan 96 at 12:33, Gavin Walker wrote:
>   My soldering skills are best not talked about in polite circles so
> an ideal development platform would be one like.
> 
>     - ECU running a multitasking operating system
>     - Services available to access input and manipulate outputs
>     (like timing, etc). - Each service would have a local butter to
>     store/read data cyclicly so the optimization can be done
>     externally. - Persistent code/data storage such as FRAM chips. -
>     Laptop interface
> 
> 
>   So you'd have some, say Java, firmware on the FRAM and more bulky
> code on the PC.  Adding new drivers would create new Java objects to
> manipulate them.
> 
>     Does anything close to this exist or is it all pipe dreams?
> 

The EFI332 project is a step towards what your dreaming about - it 
uses a 32 bit processor and will use RTEMS - a real time multi 
tasking OS. The real time bits are controlled by a fancy timer system 
and there is FLASH memory and battery backed RAM, all you'd need to 
do is write the java firmware!

Check out the EFI332 web page:

http://www.cim.swin.edu.au/~aden/web-docs/efi332/332_index.html

Andrew

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