Echelon FTXL - Manual (Page 7)

FTXL User’s Guide vii
Table of Contents
Welcome.........................................................................................................iii
Audience ........................................................................................................iii
Related Documentation ................................................................................iii
Related Altera Product Documentation ................................................iv
Related devboards.de Product Documentation...................................... v
Introduction to FTXL......................................................................................... 1
Overview ......................................................................................................... 2
A L ON W ORKS Device with a Single Processor Chip .............................. 3
A L ON W ORKS Device with Two Processor Chips ................................... 4
LonTalk Platform for ShortStack Micro Servers ............................ 5
LonTalk Platform for FTXL Transceivers....................................... 6
Comparing Neuron-Hosted, ShortStack, and FTXL Devices ............... 8
Requirements and Restrictions for FTXL .................................................. 10
Development Tools for FTXL ...................................................................... 11
FTXL Architecture ....................................................................................... 11
The FTXL Developer’s Kit ........................................................................... 13
Overview of the FTXL Development Process ............................................. 13
Getting Started with FTXL ............................................................................. 17
FTXL Developer’s Kit Overview.................................................................. 18
Installing the FTXL Developer’s Kit........................................................... 18
Hardware Requirements....................................................................... 19
Software Requirements......................................................................... 19
DBC2C20 Software................................................................................ 20
Installing the FTXL Developer’s Kit .................................................... 20
FTXL API Files ............................................................................................ 20
LonTalk Interface Developer....................................................................... 21
Example FTXL Applications ....................................................................... 21
Creating a Model File ...................................................................................... 23
Model File Overview .................................................................................... 24
Defining the Device Interface...................................................................... 25
Defining the Interface for an FTXL Application ................................. 25
Choosing the Data Type ................................................................. 26
Defining a Functional Block ................................................................. 27
Declaring a Functional Block......................................................... 28
Defining a Network Variable................................................................ 28
Defining a Changeable-Type Network Variable ........................... 30
Defining a Configuration Property....................................................... 32
Declaring a Configuration Property .............................................. 32
Responding to Configuration Property Value Changes................ 34
Defining a Configuration Property Array ..................................... 34
Sharing a Configuration Property ................................................. 37
Inheriting a Configuration Property Type .................................... 38
Declaring a Message Tag ...................................................................... 40
Defining a Resource File ....................................................................... 40
Implementation-Specific Scope Rules............................................ 42
Writing Acceptable Neuron C Code ............................................................ 43
Anonymous Top-Level Types ................................................................ 43
Legacy Neuron C Constructs ................................................................ 44
Using Authentication for Network Variables ............................................ 44