A Report on

Use of TINI 400 Kit

Mobile Weather Station Project

Embedded Systems Programming

Project Guide: Prof. Prabhat Ranjan

Group Members:

Ashish Kumar Polana Swetha Prabhat Saraswat

Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology, Gandhinagar

1.    Introduction

TINI is a small, embedded system designed to run Java(tm) applications and interface between external hardware and a network.

To start working with TINI, one needs to have the following requirements satisfied.
TINI Hardware Requirements

• TINIm400 Verification Module
• TINIs400 Socket Board

TINI Software Requirements

• TINI Software Development Kit Version 1.15 (tini1.15)
• JDK (Java Development Kit) – jdk1.1.6
• Java Communications API

Development System Requirements

• 1 RS232 (COM) port - 115200 baud
• RS232C serial cable DB9 male to DB9 female
• Crossover Ethernet cable
• 5V DC Power Supply capable of supplying 150mA

The TINI Board Model 400: DSTINIm400

The TINI reference board based on the DS80C400 processor is known as the DSTINIm400 reference module.

Configuration of DSTINIm400

1MB of nonvolatile, static RAM and 1MB of flash. It is available as a 144-pin SODIMM module.

DSTINIs400: The Socket for the DSTINIm400

For application development and prototyping, a DSTINIm400 board is not useful without the ability to connect necessities such as serial, Ethernet, and power. The main function of the DSTINIs400 socket board is to provide physical connectors to interface the DSTINIm400 with other equipment such as an Ethernet network, a serial device, or a 1-Wire network.

2.    Connections

After downloading all the required files, the following connections have to be made.

1. Verify power is not supplied to the TINIs400 sockets board.
2. Insert the TINIm400 Verification Module into the 144-pin connector on the TINIs400 sockets board.
3. Verify that the jumpers with the labels J4, J6, J10 and J14 are placed on the socket board as mentioned below.

• J4 (110)
• J6 (110)
• J10 (110)
• DTR Reset (J14)
• TINI uses DTR as a control signal for reset.

3. Attach an RS232 serial cable to the connector labeled "Loader - Serial 0" on the TINIm400 sockets board.
4. Connect the serial cable to a serial port on the PC.
5. Connect the power adapter to TINIs400 sockets board. A center positive 5V DC regulated power supply must be used with the TINIs400 sockets board.
6. Attach the crossover Ethernet cable between the PC and TINIs400 sockets board.
7. Plug the power adapter into a wall socket.

3. Running JavaKit

Once the system is correctly configured to use javax.comm, run JavaKit

1. Include the jar file tini.jar in the classpath.

set CLASSPATH=/root/tini/tini1.15/bin/tini.jar;$CLASSPATH

2. To run JavaKit, go the bin directory of tini1.15 (/root/tini/tini1.15) and run

java –JavaKit -400 -flash 40

3. In JavaKit, select the serial port to which the serial cable from TINI is attached. If no serial port names appear in the port name list, this means that javax.comm has not been installed correctly
4. The baud rate should be set to 115200.
5. Press the "Open Port" button.
6. Press the "Reset" button. This will reset the board to the TINI loader. This can be done at any time to abort slush and all running applications and return to the TINI loader.
7. Press E and press return. Then the Slush will begin booting and text will appear on the JavaKit screen.

8. Press return and a Slush login prompt will be displayed. Type in the username root and press return. The initial root password is tini.
9. We are now logged into Slush. To view a list of valid shell commands, type help at the command prompt. Detailed information on specific commands can be obtained by typing help followed by the command.

4.    Running Applications in TINI

1. Create the source file. Create and save a file named HelloWorld.java containing the source code to display “Hello World” on screen.
2. Compile the source file. Compile HelloWorld.java to a class file using the command javac –target 1.1 HelloWorld.java
3. Convert the class file. The utility program TINIConvertor performs a conversion on input, specifically one or more Java class files, and outputs a binary image suitable for execution on TINI. TINIConvertor is a Java application that lives in the tini.jar file and is run from a command shell on the host

To convert HelloWorld.class to a binary image that we can execute on TINI, run TINIConvertor supplying the three mandatory command line parameters: input file or directory (-f), API database (-d), and output file (-o).

java -classpath /root/tini/tini1.1.5/bin/tiniclasses.jar TINIConvertor -f HelloWorld.class -d /root/tini/tini1.1.5/bin/tini.db -o HelloWorld.tini

The other input required by TINIConvertor is the name of the API database distributed in the SDK. This file is named tini.db and must be supplied with the -d parameter.

Figure 1: Generating TINI image file from java file

4. Load the converted image.

Use the FTP client provided with the operating system to connect to TINI and transfer the

binary image, generated in the previous step, to the TINI file.

ftp 192.168.1.20

Now, run HelloWorld.tini

Tini1 />java HelloWorld.tini

Hello World from DA-IICT

Tini1 />

The same can be checked in the JavaKit also

5.    Booting Slush for the First Time

Running JavaKit

Follow the above-mentioned steps till step # 6 i.e. after getting the loader prompt,

1. At the JavaKit prompt, type B0 and press return followed by F0 and return. This clears the RAM of the TINI Verification Module. Any time a new runtime environment is loaded the memory should be cleared.
2. Now click on the File menu in JavaKit and select Load File. A file dialog will appear on the screen. Browse to the <TINI SDK Install Dir>\bin directory and select the tini_400.tbin file and click the Open button. Load Complete will be displayed on the screen when the firmware is loaded, this may take up to 30 seconds.
3. To load the command shell, click on the File menu and select Load File again. Select the slush_400.tbin file and click on the Open button. When Load Complete appears, slush has been successfully loaded into the flash of the TINIm400 Verification Module.
4. Press the reset button and the JavaKit loader prompt shown in Figure 1 will be displayed.
5. At the JavaKit prompt, type E and hit return.
6. Type in the username root and press return. The initial password is tini.
7. Now, we can run Java applications after logging in as explained above.

Table 1. Default User Accounts for Slush

We worked with 2 TINIm400 modules, the hostnames being TINI1 and TINI2.

When working with TINI1, to use another module, the JavaKit need not be restarted again. Just remove the first module from the socket, connect the second module in the same socket and press ‘Reset’ in the JavaKit. After logging in, slush returns a prompt comprised of the host name, TINI2. Now, we can work on TINI2 in a similar manner.

6.    Configuring the Network

Use the slush command “ipconfig” to set network configuration information. We can use the –d option to dynamically obtain an IP address and subnet mask as well as several other network parameters. For static network configuration, the following command sets the IP address and subnet mask.

TINI /> ipconfig -a 192.168.0.22 -m 255.255.255.0

7.    Debugging TINIs400

On loading the files tini_400.tbin and slush_400.tbin, they were loaded successfully but the following message was displayed before ‘Load Complete’.

‘Call System interrupted in drain’

After typing E (enter), the slush was not loaded properly and the login prompt was not displayed. Then we used the debug port option to find out the problem and realized that the boot loader was dead. The TINIs400 socket board has a debug port option for diagnostic messages. This debug port (connected to port pin P5.2) is a write-only pseudoserial port and does not use any of the serial ports of the TINI400 system. The debug port is shared with the status LED on the TINIm400, so the LED flickers when the debug port is used. Connect the diagnostic port J6 to the PC.

To display the debug messages on the PC, we can use JavaKit or any other terminal program set to 115200, 8N1. Load tini_debug_400.tbin instead of tini_400.tbin. We can switch between these two firmware versions without clearing the heap/file system.

Updating Loader

Since there was a problem of deadbootloader, we loaded a new boot loader onto the TINI using the option ‘UpdateLoader’. The file ‘LoaderLoader.hex’ has to be downloaded Go the file menu and find the option ‘UpdateLoader’ and load the file ‘LoaderLoader.hex’.