Hi,

I'm porting some Linux software to the mbed controller and am looking for some suggestions for the software design on mbed.

The software has some high-level 'business' logic that is straightforward to port since it's plain C/C++.

But dealing with the various peripherals is what is what I need some suggestions for. Here are the 'peripherals' I need to support:

- A serial port that sends data periodically. In Linux I just had a thread reading from it and blocking when that was no data.

- A serial port that I need to periodically communicate over. I send a request and wait for the response. In Linux I had a gain used a thread for that.

- A serial port that needs to present an interface to the user. This is a simple terminal where I print some stuff and listen for user input.

- A web server on Ethernet where I present a few webpages with data.

- A Ethernet I need to listen on a specific port for incoming commands.

All these things by themselves are easy to code for mbed using code that I see available for import. But it is not clear to me if I can use it. For instance the HTTPServer's bind() method blocks according the the description. And if I use classes like Ticker, I cannot use tasks the block, can I?

Can anyone give me some suggestions on how to set up a software framework for this?

Thanks.

Paul

I needed to do a little bit more homework. HTTPServer's bind() does not block ;-). I think I have a decent traps now on how to implement my app.