= ALOE Project =

This folder contains documentation and downloading instructions for the ALOE framework. To quickly go to download and user guides go to [wiki:ALOEImplementations ALOE Implementations].

[wiki:ConceptandMotivation ALOE Concept and Motivation.] The ALOE concept tries to address the main issues related with the Software Radio technology: partial or total reconfiguration; execution in a heterogeneous hardware platform; strong real-time constraints; easy development and integration; portability; …

[wiki:PhalArchitecture ALOE Framework Architecture]. The ALOE architecture, its organization, based on a modular approach, and the ALOE associated functionalities tries to provide high levels of flexibility at low cost.

[wiki:ResourceManagement Computing Resource Management]. The Computing Resource Management framework constitutes the basis, from the infrastructure point of view, of the cognitive management approaches and mechanisms.

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== Download ALOE Implementations == 

ALOE is being written in plain C and VHDL for programmable and non-programmable devices respectively. Although their implementation is completely different, its functionality as middleware remains. The ALOE-C and ALOE-VHDL implements a reduced set of functions and services but its modular architecture allows and easy extension. 

=== ALOE-C ===

The design of ALOE in C has been thought to be easily scalable and flexible. Only one small part (ALOE Hardware API) has to be rewritten when porting the system from one platform to another. So, most of ALOE functions (Software Daemons) are identical for all programmable devices where a C compiler is available.

Currently, two versions of the ALOE Hardware API are available, for Linux 2.6 and Texas Instruments DSP/BIOS Operating Systems. Although both platforms are able to run any Daemon, the common configuration maps the manager daemons (SWMAN, HWMAN, STATSMAN, CMDMAN) to the Linux platforms, leaving the DSP to perform more specialized and necessary tasks.


==== ALOE for Linux ====

    Download and install instructions: 

        * [wiki:DebianBinaries Debian Binaries]
        * [wiki:Fedora/RedHatpackages Fedora/RedHat packages]
        * [wiki:InstallFromSource Install From Source]

    This program will be released in the next weeks. Please send an email to flexnets.org@gmail.com to receive a notification.

    User Guides:
        * [wiki:ALOELinuxGuide ALOE User Guide for Linux]


==== ALOE for Texas Instruments(c) DSP C6000 family ====

    ALOE version for TI DSP's works on DSP/BIOS(c) for C6000 platforms. It obviously requires this OS which we do not provide. 

    This release is scheduled for the end of may.


=== ALOE-VHDL ===

ALOE-VHDL is in a very early developing process and is not currently available for download.

[wiki:MoreFPGA More Info]


=== Developing Waveforms for ALOE ===

Writing waveforms for ALOE is independent of the platform where it will be executed however, we recommend to perform the debugging and first phases of the development on a Linux platform as it is much more comfortable. Once you are sure that it works and it does what is supposed to, you can just re-build it for the DSP platform (linking with the HW API for DSP) and it should just 'work'; 

The following documentation is currently available:
 * [wiki:ObjectDeveloperGuide Object Developer Guide]: Doc on writing new objects for ALOE. 
 * [wiki:WaveformDeveloperGuide Waveform Developer Guide]: Doc on building waveforms for ALOE. 


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