Boomerang ChangeLog

Boomerang 2.0.4

Released on 09 Aug 2006

Tools

• Motelist compatibility updates for automated scripts
  • Do not force port names to lowercase
  • Remove potential garbage characters from port names in compact listing (-c option)

Installer

• Install Graphviz, required to compile TinyOS NesDoc documentation

Boomerang 2.0.3

Released 07 Aug 2006

Applications

• Added sample Count applications in apps/Count/
• Oscilloscope applications now include Deluge
• RemoteControl application for Tmote Invent
• Ditto rewritten to use Spram dissemination library
• Fix: TOSBase type mismatches (uint8_t to bool, TinyOS bug #1356393)

Core System

• Clock: Added periodic resource arbitrated recalibration of the DCO (system clock)
• Clock: Add processor flags for setting the DCO using ROSC to 4MHz and 8MHz (MSP430_USE_ROSC)
• Alarms: Now conform to TinyOS 2.x / TEP 102 interface
• Alarms: Fix: Bug in VirtualizeAlarm caused late alarms to catastrophically impact other virtual alarms
• Timers: Fix: Correct bit-shifts in Timer logic (TinyOS bug #1363649)
• Timers: Fix: MSP430TimerControl was taking 1 bit to set a 2 bit field. Changed to accept a "capture_mode"
• Timers: Fix: Bug in VirtualizeTimer caused late alarms to catastrophically fail and not fire again for a long period of time
• CC2420: Updated CC2420 radio code to reflect Chipcon datasheet v1.3 fixes
• CC2420: Counter bug only returned 16-bit value; fixed to return 32-bit values for timestamping
• CC2420: Only ack packets destined for our local AM group ID
• DMA: Fix: Only burst-block transfers may be stopped using DMAEN (Section 8.2.4 of MSP430 User's Guide)
• USART1: ResourceConfig did not support Arbiter. Added Arbiter to provided interfaces.
• Initialization: Overhauled pin definitions to reliably set pin direction and function (hardware.h)
• Interrupts: Add makeInput() to MSP430Interrupt
• Interrupts: Constants MNIIFG, OFIFG, ACCVIFG are bitmasks not bit positions (TinyOS bug #1371869)

Low Power

• Bug fix for low power operation (maintain 6uA in sleep mode)
• Bug fix for __nesc_atomic_sleep() to correctly choose low power mode
• Bug fix for FCC-certfied boards with Rosc (pin-direction issue)
• Reference counters for the radio and scheduler to estimate energy used (see PowerMonitorC)

NetSync / Multihop / SP

• NetSync: Fix: Nodes with id != 0 running Trawler correctly become base station
• Multihop: Fix: Initial parent selection did not pick best parent
• SP: Make accesses to ObjectPool safe
• CC2420SyncSane introduced with sanity checking to prevent the radio stack from getting stuck
• CC2420SyncMojo deprecated -- CC2420SyncSane now used under SP for low power operation

Trawler

• Dispatcher no longer prints warnings for unknown message types unless DEBUG flag is set
• Added a button for resetting no locations and graph layout
• Fix: Eliminate memory leaks causing Java heap to overflow
• Fix: Catch illegal concurrent modification
• Fix: Clear sensor channels on reset, remove nodes and edges

Cleanup

• Remove various debugging output
• "includes" changed to "#include"
• Updated documentation, package system, application semantics

Installer / Tools

• Install "dot" application/library for nesdoc
• Install msp430-gcc 3.2.3 with bugfix for nesc 1.2.7
• New motelist that works with VCP and D2XX drivers, new moteio library, new tmote-bsl
• Convert new msp430-libc preprocessor definitions to old msp430-libc format for backwards compatibility (msp430headerconversion.h)
• Upgrade to Binutils 2.17
• Use mspgcc cvs as of 1 Aug 2006, which applies to gcc and libc

Boomerang 2.0.2

Released 10 Mar 2006

• TOSBoot for Tmote Sky and Tmote Invent updated to prevent unwanted reprorgamming back to Golden Image when reset.

Boomerang 2.0.1

Released 02 Mar 2006

• Initial release