Citation
Elaine Cheong, Edward A. Lee, Yang Zhao. "Viptos: A Graphical Development and Simulation Environment for TinyOS-based Wireless Sensor Networks". Proceedings of the Third ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensory Systems, ACM, November, 2005.

Abstract
We are announcing the first release of Viptos (Visual Ptolemy and TinyOS), an integrated graphical development and simulation environment for TinyOS-based wireless sensor networks. Viptos allows developers to create block and arrow diagrams to construct TinyOS programs from any standard library of nesC/TinyOS components. The tool automatically transforms the diagram into a nesC program that can be compiled and downloaded from within the graphical environment onto any TinyOS-supported target hardware. In particular, Viptos includes the full capabilities of VisualSense [1], which can model communication channels, networks, and non-TinyOS nodes. This release of Viptos is compatible with nesC 1.2 and includes tools to harvest existing TinyOS components and applications and convert them into a format that can be displayed as block (and arrow) diagrams and simulated.

Electronic downloads

• http://ptolemy.eecs.berkeley.edu/viptos

• HTML

  Elaine Cheong, Edward A. Lee, Yang Zhao. <a
  href="http://chess.eecs.berkeley.edu/pubs/57.html"
  >Viptos:  A Graphical Development and Simulation
  Environment for TinyOS-based Wireless Sensor
  Networks</a>, Proceedings of the Third ACM Conference
  on Embedded Networked Sensory Systems, ACM, November, 2005.

• Plain text

  Elaine Cheong, Edward A. Lee, Yang Zhao. "Viptos:  A
  Graphical Development and Simulation Environment for
  TinyOS-based Wireless Sensor Networks". Proceedings of
  the Third ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensory
  Systems, ACM, November, 2005.

• BibTeX

  @inproceedings{CheongLeeZhao05_ViptosGraphicalDevelopmentSimulationEnvironmentForTinyOSbased,
      author = {Elaine Cheong and Edward A. Lee and Yang Zhao},
      title = {Viptos:  A Graphical Development and Simulation
                Environment for TinyOS-based Wireless Sensor
                Networks},
      booktitle = {Proceedings of the Third ACM Conference on
                Embedded Networked Sensory Systems},
      organization = {ACM},
      month = {November},
      year = {2005},
      abstract = {We are announcing the first release of Viptos
                (Visual Ptolemy and TinyOS), an integrated
                graphical development and simulation environment
                for TinyOS-based wireless sensor networks. Viptos
                allows developers to create block and arrow
                diagrams to construct TinyOS programs from any
                standard library of nesC/TinyOS components. The
                tool automatically transforms the diagram into a
                nesC program that can be compiled and downloaded
                from within the graphical environment onto any
                TinyOS-supported target hardware. In particular,
                Viptos includes the full capabilities of
                VisualSense [1], which can model communication
                channels, networks, and non-TinyOS nodes. This
                release of Viptos is compatible with nesC 1.2 and
                includes tools to harvest existing TinyOS
                components and applications and convert them into
                a format that can be displayed as block (and
                arrow) diagrams and simulated.},
      URL = {http://chess.eecs.berkeley.edu/pubs/57.html}
  }
  

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