TCP/IP Programming in 'C' using the CMX-Micronet Protocol Stack

Overview
'C' programming of TCP/IP applications requires a good understanding of the TCP/IP protocol and how to use the API functions supplied with Protocol Stack implementation. Where the Protocol Stack has been optimized for use in embedded systems configuration and building of the protocol stack to include just those features that need to be included in a given application need also to be taken into account.

Key Skills
After attending this cours you will be able to:

• Understand the CMX-MICRONET TCP/IP Application Programming Interface functions and how to use them
• Understand how to use MICRONET both stand-alone and together with the CMX-RTX real time operating system
• Implement embedded web server oriented applications on dsPIC target platforms
• Be able to design web pages that contain form based functionality as well as Java applets that can be used as a means by which the embedded web server can continually push information down onto the web page
• Implement code for generating web pages dynamically
• Implement an SNMP agent on a dsPIC target system

Course Contents
Overview of TCP/IP

• IP addressing and subnet masking - and how they are represented in the Protocol Stack
• IP, TCP and UDP headers and their underlying data structures
• The TCP and UDP protocols

TCP/IP - client-server implementation strategies

• Principles of sockets API based programming
• Implementing higher layer protocols in TCP/IP
• case studies exploring implementation of:
  • DHCP
  • TFTP
  • FTP
  • HTTP
  • SNMP

Installing and configuring the CMX-Micronet TCP/IP Protocol stack on standalone (without an OS) systems - and interfacing to the underlying hardware (ethernet and serial controllers) Installing and configuring the CMX-Micronet TCP/IP Protocol stack on a CMX-RTXTM based system Implementing SCADA type applications on top of UDP An introduction to implementing SNMP agents on embedded targets so that these targets can be managed via an SNMP management station Designing GUI-based control applications running on Windows or Linux workstations to control TCP/IP enabled embedded systems (the GUIs will be TK-based, or Qt based [depending on customer preferences] (to make them portable)).