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/**
\mainpage The Contiki Operating System 2.1
\mainpage The Contiki Operating System
Contiki is an open source, highly portable, multi-tasking operating
system for memory-constrained networked embedded systems written by
Adam Dunkels at the Networked Embedded Systems group at the Swedish
Institute of Computer Science.
system for memory-efficient networked embedded systems and wireless
sensor networks. Contiki is designed for microcontrollers with small
amounts of memory. A typical Contiki configuration is 2 kilobytes of
RAM and 40 kilobytes of ROM.
Contiki is designed for embedded systems with small amounts of
memory. A typical Contiki configuration is 2 kilobytes of RAM and 40
kilobytes of ROM. Contiki consists of an event-driven kernel on top of
which application programs are dynamically loaded and unloaded at
runtime. Contiki processes use light-weight \ref pt "protothreads"
that provide a linear, thread-like programming style on top of the
event-driven kernel. Contiki also supports per-process optional
preemptive multi-threading, interprocess communication using message
passing through events, as well as an optional GUI subsystem with
either direct graphic support for locally connected terminals or
networked virtual display with VNC or over Telnet.
Contiki provides IP communication, both for IPv4 and IPv6. Contiki and
its uIPv6 stack are IPv6 Ready Phase 1 certified and therefor has the
right to use the IPv6 Ready silver logo.
Many key mechanisms and ideas from Contiki have been widely adopted in
the industry. The uIP embedded IP stack, originally released in 2001,
is today used by hundreds of companies in systems such as freighter
ships, satellites and oil drilling equipment. Contiki and uIP are
recognized by the popular nmap network scanning tool. Contiki's
protothreads, first released in 2005, have been used in many different
embedded systems, ranging from digital TV decoders to wireless
vibration sensors.
Contiki introduced the idea of using IP communication in low-power
sensor networks networks. This subsequently lead to an IETF standard
and the IPSO Aliance, an international industry alliance. TIME
Magazine listed Internet of Things and the IPSO Alliance as the 30th
most important innovation of 2008.
Contiki is developed by a group of developers from industry and
academia lead by Adam Dunkels from the Swedish Institute of Computer
Science. The Contiki team currently consists of sixteen developers
from SICS, SAP AG, Cisco, Atmel, NewAE and TU Munich.
Contiki contains two communication stacks: \ref uip "uIP" and \ref
rime "Rime". uIP is a small RFC-compliant TCP/IP stack that makes it
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usage can be configured to be as low as tens of bytes.
Contiki is written in the C programming language and is freely
available as open source under a BSD-style license. More information
about Contiki can be found at the Contiki home page:
http://www.sics.se/contiki/
available as open source under a BSD-style license.
\section contiki-mainpage-tcpip TCP/IP