Cheops Software Environment

Additional documentation can be found (in FrameMaker format) in /mas/garden/cheops/doc/framedocs/. In addition, many higher level directories in the Cheops source tree have a READ-ME file, describing their usage and contents.

Other useful resources are the Garden Docs

Getting Started

• Setting up your environment
• How to compile a Cheops program.
• How to execute a Cheops program.

Host Applications

• Isis
• Chex usage and details.
• Chterm usage
• Chmon, a great Magic7 monitor interface
• Chview, a datfile viewer

These applications run on the Cheops P2 local processor. They must be executed using chex.

• Alphabetical Index
• Examples using the Rman Interface
• Other Examples
• M1 Utilities - m1format, m1ls, m1load, ...
• O1 Utilities
• I1 Utilities
• Misc Utilities - ramlog, fntcmd, memshow, ...
• P2 and System Diagnostics - memtest, floodtest, ...
• M1 Diagnostics
• O1 Diagnostics
• I1 Diagnostics

Local Libraries

Local Libraries have their source code located in ${CHEOPS_BASE}/local/src/lib/, an include file with the necessary prototypes and definitions in ${CHEOPS_LOCAL_INC}, and a linkable version in ${CHEOPS_LOCAL_LIB}. Here are descriptions of some of the newer ones :

• The Rman Interface to Norman
• The Ramlog system
• The M1 Interface Library
• The M1 Movie Library
• The Stream Interface (to M1 and the I1 Video Digitizer).
• The Stream Time Library
• The I1 Interface Library
• The State Machine Interface

THAT is what it will eventually be (hopefully). For now, here's the best we got, from ${CHEOPS_BASE}/local/include/ (links only available within the Media Lab) :

• cheops.h - Cheops stdio, system calls, etc. A "must have"
• main.h - Must be in file with main(). No associated library.
• cheops_rman.h - The Resource Manager library
• cheops_dat.h - The Datfile interface lib
• cheops_m1.h - The M1 Interface library
• cheops_out.h - The output module interface lib
• cheops_knobs.h - Knob interface lib
• cheops_ball.h - Spaceball interface lib
• cheops_img.h - Fast data and image copy+ routines
• cheops_graphics.h - Simple graphics routines ?
• cheops_i1msgs.h - I1 Low Level interface
• cheops_i1.h - I1 Lower level interface
• sys/rman.h - Low Level Resource Man. Data Struct
• cheops_device.h - The Stream Proc. Low Level interface
• cheops_flood.h - P2 Flood controller library (low level)

This is a "fix it yourself" page, located at ${CHEOPS_BASE}/WWW/software/index.html