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Tornado: An Embedded System Development Tool

Tornado: An Embedded System Development Tool. Maung Wynn Aung Han CIS 642, Spring 2001 Prof. Insup Lee. Tornado. An IDE to develop real-time and embedded applications with minimal intrusion on the target system. Tornado comprises:. VxWorks, a high-performance real-time operating system.

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Tornado: An Embedded System Development Tool

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  1. Tornado: An Embedded System Development Tool Maung Wynn Aung Han CIS 642, Spring 2001 Prof. Insup Lee

  2. Tornado • An IDE to develop real-time and embedded applications with minimal intrusion on the target system.

  3. Tornado comprises: • VxWorks, a high-performance real-time operating system. • Application-building tools (compilers and associated programs). • IDE for managing projects, host-target communication, running, debugging, and monitoring VxWorks applications.

  4. The Tornado IDE • An integrated source-code editor. • A project management facility. • Integrated C and C++ compiler and linker. • The browser, a visual monitoring tool for target system. • CrossWind, a source-level debugger. • WindSh, C and Tcl command shell that controls the target. • VxWorks target simulator VxSim. • WindView software logic analyzer for the target simulator.

  5. Overview of Tornado IDE

  6. The Tornado shell (WindSh) • allows you to download application modules, • invoke both VxWorks and application module subroutines. • Can be used for interactive exploration of the VxWorks operating system and applications. • WindSh can interpret most C language expressions. • A Tcl interpreter is also included.

  7. Debugger (CrossWind) • Setting breakpoints and controlling program execution. • Program listings and data-inspection windows. • Command-line interface extendable by Tcl scripting.

  8. Browser • The main browser window can be used to monitor- • active system and application tasks • memory consumption • summary of the current target memory use • The displays are snapshots and can be configured to update interactively, or the automatically at a specified interval.

  9. Browser Display Includes: • detailed task information • semaphores • message queues • memory partitions • watchdog timers • stack usage by all tasks on the target • target CPU usage by task • object-module structure and symbols • interrupt vectors

  10. WindView • WindView acts as a logic analyzer for real-time software. • It allows to study the dynamic interactions of among elements of your complex system. • triggering facility to start and stop data collection. • view graph provides visual chronicle of the real-time system.

  11. An example of WindView screen

  12. WindView can be used to: • Detect race conditions, deadlocks, CPU starvation, and other problems relating to task interaction. • Determine application responsiveness and performance. • See cyclic patterns in application behavior. • Save data for deferred analysis. • Conduct post-mortem analyses of failed systems.

  13. A Simple Demo (priority inversion) release B using resource B need resource A (blocked) high need resource B (blocked) long execution mid low preempted release A using resource A

  14. Sample program structure • Main task will spawn three tasks with low, high and medium priorities consecutively with some delay. • Three Tasks will use resources as explained above. • After launching the three tasks, the main task terminates.

  15. Task States

  16. Some WindView legends

  17. Seeing the tasks started in WindView

  18. High priority task blocked

  19. Low priority task preempted

  20. Medium priority task blocks

  21. Low priority task executes to the end and higher ones follow.

  22. After using priority inheritance

  23. Before using priority inheritance

  24. Conclusion • VxWorks is an established platform of RTOS. • Tornado suite of tools allow fast development of embedded systems. • Good debugging/monitoring tools improve reliability of systems. • Finally, I explored it out of curiosity and don’t get paid by WindRiver. :) • (but thanks to Mr Aftahi from WindRiver for Site Keys)

  25. References • www.windriver.com • www.wrs.com

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