Platform:	uClinux
Toolchain:	GCC
Customer:	SEAC strumenti scientifici

 

Control system for analyser robot for clinic chemistry based on microcontroller Motorola ColdFire and the operating system uClinux.

The application requires the use of SOAP protocol to communicate with a remote host by TCP/IP. The porting of EasySOAP library has been carried out.

Using the C++ languages required the development of substantial improvements to the compiler and kernel in order to reduce the application’s memory occupation. Besides, the uClinux tool-chain, initially based on previous versions of GCC, has been updated, making the required modifications in back-end m68k of GCC version 3.3 (see http://www.develer.com/uclinux/).

For this project, it was necessary to closely cooperate with uClinux and GCC projects. The changes we made have been approved by uClinux developers and subsequently included in the Linux kernel.