Boomerang ChangeLog

Boomerang 2.0.4

Released on 09 Aug 2006

Tools

Motelist compatibility updates for automated scripts
- Do not force port names to lowercase
- Remove potential garbage characters from port names in compact listing (-c option)

Installer

Released 07 Aug 2006

Applications

Core System

Clock: Added periodic resource arbitrated recalibration of the DCO (system clock)
Clock: Add processor flags for setting the DCO using ROSC to 4MHz and 8MHz (MSP430_USE_ROSC)
Alarms: Now conform to TinyOS 2.x / TEP 102 interface
Alarms: Fix: Bug in VirtualizeAlarm caused late alarms to catastrophically impact other virtual alarms
Timers: Fix: Correct bit-shifts in Timer logic (TinyOS bug #1363649)
Timers: Fix: MSP430TimerControl was taking 1 bit to set a 2 bit field. Changed to accept a "capture_mode"
Timers: Fix: Bug in VirtualizeTimer caused late alarms to catastrophically fail and not fire again for a long period of time
CC2420: Updated CC2420 radio code to reflect Chipcon datasheet v1.3 fixes
CC2420: Counter bug only returned 16-bit value; fixed to return 32-bit values for timestamping
CC2420: Only ack packets destined for our local AM group ID
DMA: Fix: Only burst-block transfers may be stopped using DMAEN (Section 8.2.4 of MSP430 User's Guide)
USART1: ResourceConfig did not support Arbiter. Added Arbiter to provided interfaces.
Initialization: Overhauled pin definitions to reliably set pin direction and function (hardware.h)
Interrupts: Add makeInput() to MSP430Interrupt
Interrupts: Constants MNIIFG, OFIFG, ACCVIFG are bitmasks not bit positions (TinyOS bug #1371869)

Low Power

Bug fix for low power operation (maintain 6uA in sleep mode)
Bug fix for __nesc_atomic_sleep() to correctly choose low power mode
Bug fix for FCC-certfied boards with Rosc (pin-direction issue)
Reference counters for the radio and scheduler to estimate energy used (see PowerMonitorC)

NetSync / Multihop / SP

NetSync: Fix: Nodes with id != 0 running Trawler correctly become base station
Multihop: Fix: Initial parent selection did not pick best parent
SP: Make accesses to ObjectPool safe
CC2420SyncSane introduced with sanity checking to prevent the radio stack from getting stuck
CC2420SyncMojo deprecated -- CC2420SyncSane now used under SP for low power operation

Trawler

Dispatcher no longer prints warnings for unknown message types unless DEBUG flag is set
Added a button for resetting no locations and graph layout
Fix: Eliminate memory leaks causing Java heap to overflow
Fix: Catch illegal concurrent modification
Fix: Clear sensor channels on reset, remove nodes and edges

Cleanup

Installer / Tools

Install "dot" application/library for nesdoc
Install msp430-gcc 3.2.3 with bugfix for nesc 1.2.7
New motelist that works with VCP and D2XX drivers, new moteio library, new tmote-bsl
Convert new msp430-libc preprocessor definitions to old msp430-libc format for backwards compatibility (msp430headerconversion.h)
Upgrade to Binutils 2.17
Use mspgcc cvs as of 1 Aug 2006, which applies to gcc and libc

Released 10 Mar 2006

TOSBoot for Tmote Sky and Tmote Invent updated to prevent unwanted reprorgamming back to Golden Image when reset.

Released 02 Mar 2006