AVR-Chat

The UCLA Compilers group has just completed more than
seven months of work improving and extending the
Avrora AVR and Mica2 sensor network simulator. We've
improved nearly every aspect of simulation, added more
instrumentation capabilities, more hardware support,
and better performance. Avrora is available for
download on our site at:

http://compilers.cs.ucla.edu/avrora

Source and binary distributions are now available.
Some of the new features in this release are:

- Support for the ATMega16 and ATMega32
microcontrollers
- An interactive GUI for viewing the results of
simulation
- An automatically generated disassembler
- Support for in-system reprogramming as used in
Deluge and SOS
- MICA2: Support for the light sensor and replaying
sensor data
- MICA2: The external 512kb flash
- Serial monitor for connecting the simulated serial
port to a socket

Many improved features include:

- More instrumentation points, including IO registers,
memory, interrupts, and finite state machines
- Improved monitors, including for interrupts, calls,
IO register updates, and sensor network packets
- Slight performance improvements for most
applications
- Improved, more extensible Java API
- More extensive built-in help system and online
documentation
- Fixed several important bugs reported by users
- Improved and simplified radio functionality
- More extensive automated test cases

If you are currently using Avrora, you should upgrade
immediately. The new release offers across-the-board
improvements to all major subsystems. If you are doing
development in Avrora, there will soon be a tag put
into CVS for the Beta 1.6.0 branch and development
will be moved to the 1.7.x series.

In 1.7.x we will be working on:

- Support for the micaZ platform
- Porting to MSP430 and Tmote Sky
- Reorganized codebase and improved testing utilities
- Extensive GUI support


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