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| \mainpage The Contiki Operating System |
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| \author Adam Dunkels <adam@dunkels.com> |
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| 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. |
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| 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/ |
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| \section contiki-mainpage-tcpip TCP/IP support |
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| 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. |
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| \sa \ref uip "The uIP TCP/IP stack documentation" |
| \sa \ref tcpip "The Contiki/uIP interface" |
| \sa \ref socket "Socket-like library" |
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| \section contiki-mainpage-threads Multi-threading and protothreads |
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| Contiki is based on an event-driven kernel but provides support for |
| both multi-threading and a lightweight stackless thread-like construct |
| called protothreads. |
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| \sa \ref ek "The Contiki event-driven kernel" |
| \sa \ref mt "Contiki multi-threading" |
| \sa \ref pt "Protothreads" |
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| \section contiki-mainpage-lib Libraries |
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| Contiki provides a set of convenience libraries for memory management |
| and linked list operations. |
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| \sa \ref timer "Timer library" |
| \sa \ref memb "Memory block management" |
| \sa \ref list "Linked list library" |
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| */ |