[TOS] Teaching/Research Equipments

[Michael Adeyeye]

On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 6:46 AM, Joel Sherrill <joel.sherrill at gmail.com>wrote:

> 2010/10/29 Michael Adeyeye <micadeyeye at gmail.com>:
> > 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 <mel at redhat.com> 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
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