TINI Information
Tiny InterNet Interface (TINI) is a platform developed by Dallas Semiconductor to provide system designers and software developers with a simple, flexible and cost effective means to design a wide variety of hardware devices able to connect directly to corporate and home networks. The platform is a combination of a small but powerful chipset and a JavaTM-programmable runtime environment. The chipset provides processing, control, device-level communication and networking capabilities. The features of the underlying hardware are exposed to the software developer through a set of Java application programming interfaces.
The board pictured below is a 1Mb version of the TINI board.
The project investigates the capability of TINI by using an interface board called the Tutor. This board has been developed by Taylec who are a Bristol based electronics company that specialise in hardware support for the TINI platform. The Tutor board is shown below:
This board has the following functionality:
- Dual serial communications ports (RS232)
- Ethernet 10/100Base-T port
- 1-wire interface
- 2 line LCD screen
- 8-bit digital input via onboard dipswitches or header cable
- 8-bit digital output via onboard LEDs or header cable
- 8-bit Analogue to Digital Converter (ADC)
- 8-bit Digital to Analogue Converter (DAC)
- Interrupt and reset switches
- Onboard Light Dependant Resistor (LDR) for analogue input
- Control Area Network (CAN) interface.
- I2C bus (A two-wire serial bus used for control, diagnostic and power management).
For a full step by step tutorial on how to set up your TINI machine see Getting Started