Real-Time and Embedded Systems Lab (70-1640)
Information about Equipment and Software

1. Spartan 3 FPGA board
   • Reference manual
   • Schematic
2. Diamond Systems Athena board
   • Reference manual
   • Universal driver manual
   • Universal driver
   • Athena demonstration programs
3. QNX information
• You can get your own perpetual license for non-commercial "hobbyist" use of QNX. You can run the QNX self-hosted OS on just about any old clunker machine that you have. You could also get a copy of the VMware server and run QNX in a virtual machine. This would allow you to run the development tools and the target QNX OS on the same computer. Consider registering for access to QNX's Foundry27 community support website.
• Tutorials
  • "Hello, world" project
  • Working with interrupts (student tutorial by Marcin Trelinski)
  • Working with threads in an object-oriented environment (student tutorial by Matt Broadstone)
  • Working with QNX timers (student tutorial by Joe Richardson)
  • POSIX Programming - there are many other tutorials on the web; just search on posix tutorial
• Guides
  • Real-time clock adjustments - copy of a section of the Getting Started guide
    • Code for adjusting the clock
  • How to access purplebox device registers
  • QNX IRQ information
  • Printer port
    • Code for accessing the printer port
    • Some information on working with interrupts on the parallel port
  • Excel spreadsheet with function to convert kernel event time to a double value
4. FPGA Interface
   • A2 connector pinouts
   • FPGA programming
     • VHDL
     • Constraints file

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