Tornado

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Training Workshop
Wind River Systems, Inc. 500 Wind River Way Alameda, CA 94501 510-749-2141 FAX: 510-749-2378 training@wrs.com http://www.wrs.com/training
Version 5.1 24 May 1999

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Course Prerequisites
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One year C programming experience: familiarity with basic control structures, pointers, structures, preprocessor commands. Basic understanding of operating systems and debugging techniques.

Functional knowledge of host platform:

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UNIX: user-level knowledge of UNIX le system and csh shell; editing text with vi, emacs, or host-native GUI editor; X window system GUI. Windows: user-level knowledge of Windows NT/95/ 98 graphical and command-line user interfaces, le systems, and standard Windows editor.

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Course Objectives
Overview of Tornado / VxWorks facilities. Boot VxWorks and download object modules to a VxWorks target. Use Tornado tools to perform cross-development. Control, and communicate between, tasks executing under VxWorks. Use WindView to analyze a multitasking application. Use VxWorks primitives to access resources exclusively, and to synchronize the actions of different tasks. Use timers for periodic code execution. Differentiate between the standard I/O library, the formatted I/O library, and the basic I/O system. Create and use local le systems. From VxWorks, access le systems on remote machines. Recongure VxWorks, linking in user-dened code.

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Table of Contents
Volume 1
Chapter Getting Started ............................................... Components of Tornado Getting Help Hardware/Software Conguration Booting Starting Tornado WDB Agent Projects ............................................................ Projects Overview Bootable Projects and VxWorks Conguration Integrated Simulator Downloadable Projects Build Specications WindSh and Browser .................................... WindSh Browser CrossWind ....................................................... Overview Starting A Debugging Session Basic Debugging System-level Debugging Real-Time Multitasking ............................... Introduction Task Basics Task Control Error Status System Tasks WindView 2.0.................................................. WindView Conguration Events 1

Semaphores..................................................... Overview Binary Semaphores and Synchronization Mutual Exclusion Intertask Communication ............................ Introduction Shared Memory Message Queues Pipes Memory............................................................ Memory Allocation Exceptions, Interrupts and Timers ............. Exception Handling and Signals Interrupt Service Routines Timers I/O and File System ....................................... Introduction Character I/O Block I/O Networking ..................................................... Introduction VxWorks Network Conguration Routing Protocols Remote Access Services Reconguring VxWorks ............................... Production Issues VxWorks Start-up Optional Products.......................................... Overview Shared Memory Objects (VxMP) Virtual Memory (VxVMI) Appendix Code Examples Index

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