Dear Peter,

I'm happy that you liked the approach we are following. As you may know, we are also partners in various European projects about automatic code generation and optimization (see the INTERESTED IST FP7 project), and we are working with various companies as well as INRIA on that topic.

We had a phone call a few days ago with Roland, explaining possible collaboration strategies. I know you'll have a meeting the 27 march, and by that time Roland will have a document with some possible collaboration atrategies. From now on, if you want, we can continue the discussion using private e-mails (my e-mail is pj "at" evidence.eu.com), leaving to the forum the technical questions which can be of interest for the community.

About the compilation problem with Scilab and Scicos:

1)
did you change the file in /bin/rtd_config.properties with the correct pathname of the C30 / MPLAB IDE installation? (they are the same parameters to be put in the Preferences/RT-Druid/Oil/PIC30 dialog box under Eclipse...)

2)
does the compilation ends with an error?

- if yes, please provide a log of the compilation to understand what happened.

- if no, the ELF file will be produced under the directory you specified in the dialog box of the _embed_ded Code Generator, under the Debug directory. the name of the file is pic30.elf

- please note that by default the scilab/scicos toolchain produces a binary suitable for the MCU mounted on the FLEX boards, which is a MC version (not a GP version like the chip provided in the Explorer 16)

- about possible blocks for the MCPWM, SPI, and A/D blocks. We have developed A/D and PWM blocks which are currently used on our Flex demo board. For the SPI, it depends on its usage. We are working on the SPI connection for the FLEX boards, which will give the possibility to take out data from the microcontroller to be sent to a PC for simulation and logging (it will be ready hopefully soon, we just released the first step of the chain as an application note).

In general, we are open to provide custom blocks which hopefully can be also released to the public in the next FLEX Scicos pack. We are also working a lot on the new version of the code generator, which hopefully will produce better code. We'll also give more detail on that to Roland before the next meeting.

Regards,

Paolo