SenSys Tock Tutorial, Sunday, November 5th in Delft
The Tock operating system is a secure, embedded kernel for sensor network and Internet of Things systems using Cortex-M micro controllers. Written in the Rust language, it supports kernel extensions in Rust as well as multiple concurrent applications written in C, Rust, or Lua. This tutorial will give an introduction to programming in Tock as well as an overview of its architecture. Attendees will write a user-land networking application in C as well as a kernel extension in Rust. Attendees will be provided hardware kits, which they may optionally purchase as part of the registration fee.
You can register now through the SenSys registration page. During registration, select “Workshop or Tutorial”, then select “Tock Operating System Tutorial” from the drop-down menu titled “Which Workshop or Tutorial”.
Location
The tutorial will be co-located with other tutorials and workshops at TU Delft Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management at Jaffalaan 5.
Prerequisites
Please bring a laptop to use during the tutorial and download the Tock VM1 in advance. If you prefer to develop natively, please finish the Tock Getting Started guide so that everything is downloaded in advance.
Schedule and Agenda
- 13:00-14:00 Lunch
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14:00-17:30 Tock Tutorial
- Part 1: Intro to Tock, development environment, and hardware
- Part 2: Userland programming in Tock
- Sycall interface
- Synchronous & Asychronous Programming
- Inter-Process Communication
- Part 3: Kernel Hacking
- From boot to board
- Building a basic capsule (driver)