Avrora Installation

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Steps to install AVRORA

Step 0: Get Java!

Avrora is implemented in Java, and therefore it requires that you have a functional Java Virtual Machine installed. Once the JVM is installed and you are able to run java at the command line, you're ready to continue to the next step.

Freely available Java Virtual Machine implementations are available from both Sun Microsystems and IBM.

See http://java.sun.com to download the Sun Java implementation for your platform.

Avrora is not dependent on the particular Java implementation that you choose.

step1:Download the Avrora JAR Archive

Download the latest JAR archive release from "http://compilers.cs.ucla.edu/avrora/release.html". Simply save the JAR file to your disk.

Copy the avrora jar file(avrora-beta-1.6.0.jar in this case) in a directory say "home/test/avrora/avrora-beta-1.6.0.jar"

copy the following code to ".bashrc" to set path

alias avrora='java -jar /home/test/avrora/avrora-beta-1.6.0.jar'

Close all the shells opened

Open a new shelll and type "avrora" if no error then avrora is successfully install.

Step 2:Compile

1>The Atmel assembler syntax. Files that end with the .asm extension are assumed to be in this format. Files in this format can be loaded directly by Avrora.

2>The GNU assembler (GAS) syntax. Files that end with the .s extension are assumed to be in this format.

3>The output of the avr-objdump utility. Files that end with the .od extension are assumed to be in this format. Avrora cannot directly load ELF or SREC images, therefore binary programs in those formats must be converted to a textual format with avr-objdump

1> To run Blink application goto Blink directory then type the follwing

make micaz

2> convert the executable file main.exe to .od file by typing

avr-objdump -zhD build/mica2/main.exe > blink.od

Step 3: Test Simulation

In order to select a multi-node simulation, we will need to specify the "simulation" option with the value "sensor-network". This tells Avrora to the simulation type is a sensor network, rather than the default, single node simulation.

type

avrora -simulation=sensor-network -seconds=5.0 -nodecount=15 blink.od

Note that only AVR platforms such as Mica2/Micaz is supported by Avrora

For more information visit to "http://compilers.cs.ucla.edu/avrora/"