User guide

CoMET Version 5.9 – Tutorial 79
CIF Peripheral Model - SimpleTimer
Overview
This tutorial demonstrates to how construct a Peripheral Model and how to write the code
that models the device behavior.
The device is a 32 bit general purpose timer. The details are given in the specification below.
This tutorial demonstrates:
• Creating a CIF Peripheral Device project
• Setting up the Fabric Module Definition (.fmx) file
• Setting up instance data
• Configuring the initialization function
• Connecting the peripheral device to a StdBus net
• Reading and writing events
• Scheduling callbacks
• Instantiating the device in a platform
Prerequisites
This tutorial assumes:
 Comet 5 is installed and open.
 Either the Microsoft Visual C++ compiler or the gcc compiler is installed
 You are familiar with creating and navigating a workspace. These procedures are
covered in the preceding Hello World example
 You are familiar with creating a CIF project. This is covered in the Simple VSP
tutorial above.