Unfortunately, I did not design the platform which does not include a 32kHz
crystal. So my question is now:
Is it possible to port TinyOS to a platform without that clock and have the
timers work in some way?

Thank you,
Fabien.

PS: I'm going to start a new conversation on the mailing list.

On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 12:06 AM, Sourabh Sankule <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Fabien,
>
> In your new platform of MSP430F2618 micro, have you physically connected
> the32Khz crystal to timer clock pins, ie pins Xout and Xin ? Without this
> crystal the timer wont receive any clock and hence wont run, so LEDs wont
> blink.
>
> See the schematic of the telosB mote here :
> http://webs.cs.berkeley.edu/tos/hardware/telos/telos-revb-2004-09-27.pdf
>
> Sourabh
>
>
>
> On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 1:26 PM, Fabien CHRAIM <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>> Hello Sourabh and thank you for your reply.
>> I didn't quite understand what you were saying. Are you talking about
>> something in software or physically connecting the 32kHz clock?
>> If you're talking about software, can you give me a bit more details?
>>
>> Thank you again,
>> Fabien.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 10:27 PM, Sourabh Sankule <[email protected]>wrote:
>>
>>> Have you connected the timer crystal of 32.768 Khz ? Without that crystal
>>> timers wont fire.
>>>
>>> Sourabh
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 2:05 AM, Fabien CHRAIM 
>>> <[email protected]>wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hello,
>>>> So I am porting TinyOS to a new platform which has the MSP430f2618.
>>>> In order to program this platform, I am using the output of the make
>>>> command, and specifically the "main.ihex" file located in
>>>> /apps/Blink/build/<platform name>/
>>>> I rename this file to main.hex and then use the FET-Pro430 software by
>>>> Elprotronic which downloads the binary using the MSP-FET430UIF.
>>>>
>>>> The problem I am encountering is that, after I download the Blink
>>>> application, the leds turn on, but they don't blink (like on the telos mote
>>>> for example).
>>>> Has anyone seen this before? or has any ideas on how to proceed?
>>>>
>>>> I am getting a warning at compile time saying: #warning using default
>>>> msp430 clock configuration (is it relevant?)
>>>>
>>>> Thank you,
>>>> Fabien.
>>>>
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>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>
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