John Conway's Game of Life implementation running on the Miosix embedded OS installed on an STM32 Nucleo micro-controller.
This is the Project repository for the Advanced Operating Systems course of the Master's Degree Computer Science and Engineering at Politecnico di Milano.
The Game of Life, is a cellular automaton devised by the British mathematician John Conway in 1970. It is a zero-player game, meaning that its evolution is determined by its initial state, requiring no further input. One interacts with the Game of Life by creating an initial configuration and observing how it evolves. It is Turing complete and can simulate a universal constructor or any other Turing machine. Further information and a description of the cellular automaton is provided in the Wikipedia page. The rules used in this program are the exact replication of the standard rules described in the Wiki.
In the Report folder, there is the official and complete documentation of the project. The .tex file is the LaTeX documentation, which can be compiler on a local machine. The pdf file is the already compiled LaTeX document. There is a thorough high-level description of the code and the mechanics of the Game of Life program simulation.
Miosix kernel is used as submodule as specified in official wiki page. In order to build the project, first clone the repository. Then move the contents of this folder to the Miosix repository.
Follow this guide to install correctly your board.
Clone the Miosix repository.
Copy this repository inside the miosix-kernel/ path. Substitute the main.cpp file with the one in this repo and
use the command
make
to compile the executable. Note that the Makefile has been slightly changed from the provided standard one in order to include certain directories.
The project is built for this STM32-Nucleo board on top of Miosix Embedded OS.
After compiling the Kernel, it can be flashed to the micro-controller via command line with
st-flash write main.bin 0x08000000
using the stlink utility. Note that if some compilation problem arises,
it might be resolved by cleaning the compilation output with make clean.
In order to access what the board prints on screen, after connecting the board to the computer, you should use the command:
screen /dev/ttyACM0 19200
You can then exit screen by pressing the keys combination Ctrl+A -> k -> y.
Modify in the file miosix-kernel/miosix/config/arch/cortexM4_stm32f4/stm32f401re_nucleo/board_settings.h at the
following line:
const unsigned int defaultSerialSpeed=460800;
This has been found to be the highest working baud rate for this stm32 nucleo board.
I have used also this guide for the serial programming part.
The terminal configuration is changed by using the library termios.h
Project Developer: Simone Giampà (Me)