Thank you very much for your help. It was very informative.
On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 7:12 PM, Eric Decker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The telosB uses the MSP430F1611 processor which has 48 KB of flash ("ROM")
> for
> code space and 10KB of RAM. The 1 MB of external flash is implemented on
> the TelosB
> as an external part that I beleive is on the SPI bus. Razvan set a pointer
> to its interface.
>
> When you build your application the compiler will tell you how much code
> space the application is taking up. This needs to be <48KB. The RAM number
> is only globally allocated variables. It doesn't include stack. The
> globals live starting in the lower addresses of RAM and grow up. The stack
> starts at the top of RAM and grows down. If they collide your program will
> do interesting things that will be hard to figure out (some form of memory
> dump would be helpful).
>
> Sorry, I'm running off. You want to make sure that the dynamic behaviour of
> your program with respect to RAM usage (stack + globals, TinyOS is mostly
> static allocation) doesn't exceed the 10KB. For most applications (simple
> ones) this shouldn't be a problem and you won't have to worry about it
> unless the RAM usage number from the compiler exceeds 8KB or so.
>
> eric
> Eric B. Decker
> Senior (over 50 :-) Researcher
> Autonomous Systems Lab
> Jack Baskin School of Engineering
> UCSC
>
> On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 12:37 PM, tarun sharma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>> hi
>>
>> My question is more related to TelosB motes then TinyOS as such. In
>> the datasheet of the motes it is mentioned that it has 10KB of RAM and
>> 1 MB external flash and 48 KB of program flash memory. I was jus
>> wondering which of these memories is actually used to store the
>> program i install and which one is used to run it. I jus wanted to
>> know this so as to make sure that the programs that I code can fit in
>> the available memory and run successfully.
>>
>> Could you please help me out with it.
>>
>> Thank you very much
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