System Information Display (SID)

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System Information Display (SID)

• Brad Mouring
• CIS 4914 - Senior Project
• Tuesday, 3/21/06

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Summary of Project

• Motivation
• A method to easily obtain important information
  from a personal computer
• Problem
• Display purchased at discount lacked proper
  driving hardware and software
• Solution
• Create the necessary hardware and software to
  achieve desired goal

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Sources

• Sweet, Michael. Serial Programming Guide for
  POSIX Operating Systems. 2005. 1 Feb. 2006
  lthttp//www.easysw.com/mike/serial/serial.htmlgt
• Noritake Inc. Noritake Vacuum Fluorescent Display
  Module Specification. ISE Electronics Corp.
• DS-161-0000-01
• Kernighan, Brian W. and Dennis M. Ritchie. The C
  Programming Language. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.
  Prentice Hall, 1988.
• Alm, Peter et al. XMMS Media Player Source.
  2003. lthttp//www.xmms.org/files/1.2.x/xmms-1.2.10
  .tar.gzgt
• METAR Help. 2005. 1 March 2006.
  lthttp//weather.cod.edu/notes/metar.htmlgt

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Work Performed

• Hardware interface complete
• Designed, tested, put in housing
• Serial interface example code complete
• Used as a proof-of-concept
• Plug-in loading/utilizing infrastructure code
  created and tested
• Possible improvements later
• Plug-ins created
• XMMS media information
• Weather information

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Work Remaining

• Integrate serial communication code into plug-in
  framework code
• Create new plug-ins to gather additional
  information for display
• Processor/memory/network status?
• Disk space?
• Improvements to plug-in framework
• Memory use audit to avoid leaks
• Possible config file reading for init

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Flowchart of Current Design
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Diagram of Plug-in Structuring
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Screenshot of Plug-ins Running
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VFD Unit in Test Mode