1. Topic :

• work on communications : manage to communicate between IAGS and the PIC

2. Goals:

The goal is the communication between the two devices: send data from the PIC (via the brainboxes) to IAGS, and send data onto the GLCD from IAGS.

3. Steps :

The connection between the PIC and the brainboxes is done. We had some problems because of the baud rate wich was to high for the PIC. The brainboxes baudrate had been reconfigurated with a slowest one to solve the problem.

We manage to create a connection between IAGS and the PIC. We send some data from IAGS to the PIC, and we print it on the GLCD screen. There are some problems in the display (some characters of the text sent are not displayed).

We sent also data from the PIC to the IAGS. We manage to get datas from the PIC, but there's a timing problem we must resolve. Indeed when the PIC send data to IAGS, the server doesn't get all data in the same packet message. We will have to ask a software devloper to ask him if a protocol was define to communicate in serial mode with IAGS in order to get all the data in the same Pacjet Message.

We encoutered another problem : the HEX size limiation of the shareware version of MikroC we use. We must find a solution to this problem.

4. Conclusion :

The connection between the embedded cart and the IAGS structure is in good way. We must resolve problems link with the devices we are using.

5. Next week goals :

Make the connection between IAGS and the PIC better. Begin to work on the connection between the barcode reader and the PIC.