The Contiki Operating System 2.x
- Author:
- Adam Dunkels <adam@dunkels.com>
The Contiki operating system is a highly portable, minimalistic operating system for a variety of constrained systems ranging from modern 8-bit microcontrollers for embedded systems to old 8-bit homecomputers. Contiki provides a simple event driven kernel with optional preemptive multithreading, interprocess communication using message passing signals, a dynamic process structure and support for loading and unloading programs, native TCP/IP support using the uIP TCP/IP stack, and a graphical subsystem with either direct graphic support for directly connected terminals or networked virtual display with VNC or Telnet.
Contiki is written in the C programming language and is freely available as open source under a BSD-style license. More information about Contiki can be found at the Contiki home page: http://www.sics.se/~adam/contiki/
Contiki includes the uIP TCP/IP stack (http://www.sics.se/~adam/uip/) that provides Contiki with TCP/IP networking support. uIP provides the protocols TCP, UDP, IP, and ARP.
- See also:
- The uIP TCP/IP stack documentation
The Contiki/uIP interface
Protosockets library
Contiki is based on an event-driven kernel but provides support for both multi-threading and a lightweight stackless thread-like construct called protothreads.
- See also:
- Contiki processes
Protothreads
Event timers
Optional multi-threading
Contiki provides a set of convenience libraries for memory management and linked list operations.
- See also:
- Simple timer library
Memory block management
Linked list library
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