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Permalink Reply by Eduardo Montanez on June 22, 2009 at 11:39pm

Any new tower geeks? Order your system yet?

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Permalink Reply by Eduardo Montanez on June 30, 2009 at 12:53am

For those of you just starting to play with your Tower System and want an alternative to the complimentary MQX real-time operating system include, check out the open-source FreeRTOS at www.freertos.org.

FreeRTOS V5.3.1 Now Available: - adds MCF51CN128 ColdFire V1 microcontrollers.

FreeRTOS plays well with the open-source, small footprint uIP ethernet stack and Tower System.

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Permalink Reply by Stanley Ames on July 2, 2009 at 12:22pm

Ah, that's very nice...just what we wanted.

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Permalink Reply by Eduardo Montanez on July 6, 2009 at 11:41pm

Stanley, today I found out that there is a nice Application note AN3906 on freescale.com explaining how to use freertos with MCF51CN128 device. The application example is a serial to ethernet bridge, but I am sure the basics can apply to your application. There is software associated with this application note.

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Permalink Reply by Eduardo Montanez on July 14, 2009 at 12:09am

Good video describing the benefits of freeRTOS for ColdFire V1. Check out link below, I thought I would share.

freeRTOS for ColdFire V1

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Permalink Reply by Eduardo Montanez on June 30, 2009 at 10:05pm

I want to give some kudos to Digikey for their simple Tower System and MCF51CN audio overviews. Check them out in resources page or via:

http://dkc1.digikey.com/us/en/TOD/Freescale/TowerSystem/TowerSystem...

http://dkc1.digikey.com/us/en/tod/Freescale/MCF51CN/MCF51CN.html

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Permalink Reply by GeekTastic on July 1, 2009 at 2:42pm

Those are a great! Nice work Digikey.

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Permalink Reply by WestfW on August 26, 2009 at 10:37pm

Mine shipped today, supposedly. Should be here soon.

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Permalink Reply by eric gregori on January 22, 2010 at 6:24pm

How does the license for MQX work?
I have a open source GPL3 project, that runs on windows and linux. I want to port it to run on Kirin3 over MQX, but I am not sure how to "merge" the licenses.

Obviously I cannot include the MQX source in my GPL3 repository, but can I include a MQX library ( non source ) in my GPL3 repository?

How would I release my project on this board, can I include the MQX libraries in the zip file if I release the code on this board?

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Permalink Reply by aarcee on February 3, 2010 at 4:35am

Hi all, has anyone tried with the web applications using tower. if so then pls hep me out. I am planning to build a monitoring system for a machine.

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Permalink Reply by Flávio Henrique P. de Oliveira on February 10, 2010 at 9:37am

I'm having problems on a c++ project which i cannot declare a class as i usually do on a standard windows software.

class abc
{
blablabla
}

it causes an error, it says that the "undefined identifier class"...
what should i do to declares classe as i do on windows programs?

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Permalink Reply by ad316 on February 10, 2010 at 10:18pm

The tower system looks great. However, is there a single board that combines the controller and serial modules? Doesn't have to be the same controller. Thanks.

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