Contiki

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For other uses, see Contiki (disambiguation).

Image:Contiki-avr.png Image:Contiki-C64.png Contiki is a small open source, yet fully featured, operating system developed for use on a number of smallish systems ranging from 8-bit computers to embedded microcontrollers, including sensor network motes. The name Contiki comes from Thor Heyerdahl's famous Kon-Tiki raft.

Despite providing multitasking and a built-in TCP/IP stack, Contiki only requires a few kilobytes of code and a few hundred bytes of RAM. A fully fledged system complete with a graphical user interface (GUI) will require about 30 kilobytes of code memory.

The basic kernel and most of the core functions are developed by Adam Dunkels.

1 Features
2 Ports
3 See also
4 External links

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Features

A full installation of Contiki includes the following features:

Multitasking kernel
Optional pre-emptive multitasking (on a per-application basis)
Protothreads
TCP/IP networking
Windowing system and GUI
Networked remote display (VNC)
Web browser (claimed to be the world smallest)
Personal webserver
Simple telnet client
Screensaver

More applications are developed constantly. Known planned developments include:

an email client
an IRC client

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Ports

The Contiki operating system has been or is being ported to the following computers (c), video game consoles (vgc), handheld game consoles (hgc), and microcontrollers (µc):