CS261 Project - Sensor Network Programming for “Dummies”

Although, the ultimate goal of WSNs is to place powerful data collection and analysis capability in the hands of scientists, current programming environments are cumbersome often requiring someone with a PhD in computer science in order to construct a basic program. Our research group is currently developing a next generation system-on-chip (SoC) for wireless sensor network applications. Therefore, this work proposes a graphical and modular programing environment for sensor network applications on the Harvard Ultra Low Power Event Driven Architecture. The proposed system provides a set of parameterizable macros that the user can connect together to define an application. The back-end of our system uses the connection information to piece define correct interrupt-service routines (ISR) routines. This macro method allows us to use the Hardware features of our system such as hardware acceleration and application level power management. Our SoC is currently in the circuit design phase and we plan to complete the implementation of our programing system by the time parts return from IBM.