BitCloud User Guide 1-i
8199A–MCU Wireless–01/09
Table of Contents
Section 1
Introduction.................................................................................................................1-1
1.1 Intended Audience and Purpose........................................................................................ 1-1
1.2 Key Features...................................................................................................................... 1-2
1.3 Supported Platforms ..........................................................................................................1-2
1.4 Related Documents............................................................................................................1-2
Section 2
BitCloud Architecture..................................................................................................2-1
2.1 Architecture Highlights ....................................................................................................... 2-1
2.2 Naming Conventions.......................................................................................................... 2-2
2.3 File System Layout............................................................................................................. 2-3
Section 3
User Applications Programming .................................................................................3-1
3.1 Event-driven programming................................................................................................. 3-1
3.2 Request/confirm and indication mechanism ...................................................................... 3-2
3.3 Task scheduler, priorities, and preemption ........................................................................ 3-3
3.4 Application timers............................................................................................................... 3-4
3.5 Concurrency and interrupts................................................................................................ 3-4
3.6 Typical application structure............................................................................................... 3-6
Section 4
ConfigServer Interface................................................................................................4-1
4.1 Reading/writing CS parameters ......................................................................................... 4-1
4.1.1 CS parameter definition in Makefile..................................................................... 4-1
4.1.2 CS Read/Write functions ..................................................................................... 4-1
Section 5
Networking overview...................................................................................................5-1
5.1 Network formation and join ................................................................................................ 5-1
5.1.1 Network start parameters .................................................................................... 5-1
5.1.2 Network start request and confirm....................................................................... 5-2
5.2 Parent loss and network leave........................................................................................... 5-3
5.2.1 Parent loss by end device.................................................................................... 5-3
5.2.2 Network leave ...................................................................................................... 5-4
5.3 Data exchange................................................................................................................... 5-5
5.3.1 Application endpoint registration.......................................................................... 5-5
5.3.2 ASDU configuration ............................................................................................. 5-6
