RE: [Embedlets-dev] SLIP & uVM serial multidrop network

[Ted K. <tk...@ya...>]

James wrote:

> Well.. Here I am at PICMASTERS and might I say it has been a very very
> VERY interesting conference for me.
> 
> I won't say much more just yet but for those who have been following the
> development of the thinking behind my business model.. Well it's looking
> good with microchip at this (early) stage ;-) [...] Well this and other
> technology I introduced them to has left some people from microchip
> 'breathless'...Lots' more to come on this.[snip]

This is absolutely spectacular news James!  I was wondering what MicroChip's
reaction was going to be to what you are doing with uVM but it looks like they
are finally interested in moving forward with these new technologies.  I am
looking forward to hearing more!



> I produced on the SLIP/JAPL
> infrastructure is actually the same sort of thing as the .NET
> infrastructure.. I am very keen though to demonstrated platform
> independence of the HOST though and have already started on this... So
> the answer is yes. Will happen sooner than later.

This is funny because I stumbled across some interesting information while
researching the most efficient way to implement your SLIP based RS232 multidrop
idea in a cross-platform way.  During the past few days I have been looking
very closely at RXTX (which is an open-source version of the javax.comm
communications API, http://www.rxtx.org/) and guess what?  They have already
started putting in support for things like I2C and RS485.  It seems to me that
this would be a good code base to start with in order to build cross-platform
SLIP capabilities on top of.


Anyway, we can talk more about this when you get back.

Ted

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