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/**
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\mainpage The Contiki Operating System
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Contiki is an open source, highly portable, multi-tasking operating
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system for memory-efficient networked embedded systems and wireless
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sensor networks. Contiki is designed for microcontrollers with small
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amounts of memory. A typical Contiki configuration is 2 kilobytes of
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RAM and 40 kilobytes of ROM.
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Contiki provides IP communication, both for IPv4 and IPv6. Contiki and
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its uIPv6 stack are IPv6 Ready Phase 1 certified and therefor has the
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right to use the IPv6 Ready silver logo.
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Many key mechanisms and ideas from Contiki have been widely adopted in
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the industry. The uIP embedded IP stack, originally released in 2001,
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is today used by hundreds of companies in systems such as freighter
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ships, satellites and oil drilling equipment. Contiki and uIP are
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recognized by the popular nmap network scanning tool. Contiki's
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protothreads, first released in 2005, have been used in many different
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embedded systems, ranging from digital TV decoders to wireless
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vibration sensors.
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Contiki introduced the idea of using IP communication in low-power
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sensor networks networks. This subsequently lead to an IETF standard
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and the IPSO Aliance, an international industry alliance. TIME
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Magazine listed Internet of Things and the IPSO Alliance as the 30th
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most important innovation of 2008.
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Contiki is developed by a group of developers from industry and
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academia lead by Adam Dunkels from the Swedish Institute of Computer
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Science. The Contiki team currently consists of sixteen developers
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from SICS, SAP AG, Cisco, Atmel, NewAE and TU Munich.
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Contiki contains two communication stacks: \ref uip "uIP" and \ref
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rime "Rime". uIP is a small RFC-compliant TCP/IP stack that makes it
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possible for Contiki to communicate over the Internet. Rime is a
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lightweight communication stack designed for low-power radios. Rime
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provides a wide range of communication primitives, from \ref rimeabc
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"best-effort local area broadcast", to \ref rudolph1
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"reliable multi-hop bulk data flooding".
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Contiki runs on a variety of platform ranging from embedded
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microcontrollers such as the MSP430 and the AVR to old
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homecomputers. Code footprint is on the order of kilobytes and memory
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usage can be configured to be as low as tens of bytes.
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Contiki is written in the C programming language and is freely
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available as open source under a BSD-style license.
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\section contiki-mainpage-tcpip TCP/IP
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Contiki includes the uIP TCP/IP stack (http://www.sics.se/~adam/uip/)
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that provides Contiki with TCP/IP networking support. uIP provides the
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protocols TCP, UDP, IP, and ARP.
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\sa \ref uip "The uIP TCP/IP stack documentation"
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\sa \ref tcpip "The Contiki/uIP interface"
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\sa \ref psock "Protosockets library"
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\section contiki-mainpage-rime Rime
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Rime is a lightweight communication stacks designed for low-power
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radios. Rime provides a wide range of communication primitives
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suitable for implementing communication-bound applications or network
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protocols.
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\sa \ref rime "The Rime Communication Stack"
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\section contiki-mainpage-threads Multi-threading and protothreads
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Contiki is based on an event-driven kernel but provides support for
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both multi-threading and a lightweight stackless thread-like construct
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called protothreads.
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\sa \ref process "Contiki processes"
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\sa \ref pt "Protothreads"
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\sa \ref etimer "Event timers"
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\sa \ref mt "Optional multi-threading"
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\section contiki-mainpage-lib Libraries
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Contiki provides a set of convenience libraries for memory management
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and linked list operations.
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\sa \ref timer "Simple timer library"
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\sa \ref memb "Memory block management"
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\sa \ref list "Linked list library"
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\section contiki-mainpage-getting-started Getting started with Contiki
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Contiki is designed to run on many different \ref platform "platforms". It is also
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possible to compile and build both the Contiki system and Contiki
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applications on many different development platforms.
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\section contiki-mainpage-building Building the Contiki system and its applications
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The Contiki build system is designed to make it easy to compile
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Contiki applications for either to a hardware platform or into a
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simulation platform by simply supplying different parameters to the
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<tt>make</tt> command, without having to edit makefiles or modify
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the application code.
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See \ref buildsystem
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*/
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