On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 6:46 AM, Joel Sherrill <[email protected]>wrote:
> 2010/10/29 Michael Adeyeye <[email protected]>: > > Many thanks to everyone for their contributions. I have also sought > opinions > > of colleagues here. I am right with the listed equipments. We will be > > exploring both - ARM and MIPS - architectures. And we do have the > expertise > > to put them into full use. As I earlier said, the equipments will always > be > > used by all the students. The postgraduate students will be required to > > guide the undergraduate students, when they need to use the equipments. > We > > already run courses at both levels that require the equipments. > > > > I looked online if the suppliers could provide me with some free boards, > but > > they've run out of free ones. It would be great if I could get them by > the > > end of November so that we could get a hang of them before the school > > resumes in January. > > FWIW RTEMS uses a number of simulators for testing. We have support > for about 20 simulator configurations. We have BSPs for ARM and MIPS > simulators. Most of them don't have the features of say a BeagleBoard > but depending on what you are teaching, some of them may be good > targets. They are very easy to use. > > --joel sherrill > RTEMS > Thanks Joel. But we are not thinking of simulations. The RTEMS project is awesome. We might some students, who might be interested in it, here. Regards, Michael. > > Regards, > > Michael. > > > > > > On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 8:20 PM, Mel Chua <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > >> /me reads comments from Steve and Matt, blinks, absorbs, and learns a > >> *lot*, filing thoughts away for future reference when I someday become a > >> prof myself. Wow. Thanks, guys. > >> > >> Michael - I want to give you some time and space to rethink and respond, > >> but one thing that would be helpful to know on this end: what's your > >> timeline for this? I'm not sure when your term starts/ends; regardless > >> of what equipment you decide to ask for at the end, when will you need > >> it by? > >> > >> I do echo the general suggestion of starting with something small and > >> achievable and asking the manufacturer first, as from my own personal > >> experience[0] the larger suppliers are pretty psyched when schools ask > >> to teach using their platform and usually express that happiness with > >> massive discounts and/or donations. Mmm, donations. > >> > >> --Mel > >> > >> [0] as a student asking for project hardware - think of it this way; > >> manufacturers want students to learn on their stuff so when they go to > >> work and design things that will be manufactured in the tens of > >> thousands of units, they'll *still* use their stuff. :D > >> _______________________________________________ > >> tos mailing list > >> [email protected] > >> http://teachingopensource.org/mailman/listinfo/tos > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > tos mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://teachingopensource.org/mailman/listinfo/tos > > > > >
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