This page is a loose collection of news about the Hades framework.
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29.12.2018
As Java Webstart has now officially been deprecated by Oracle,
and applets are almost universally blocked,
running the demos may be a bit of trouble these days.
The webstart page has some tips.
Downloading the software and running locally on your system
should still work, of course.
22.12.2015
Java webstart should work again... (of course, you still need
to accept running the app despite the self-signed signature).
As it turned out, recent versions of the JDK
didn't like the fact that our webserver defaults to https:
protocol for all content, while the .jnlp files still
referenced the JAR archive via plain http: URLs.
01.01.2015
First prototype of Hades Android running (but not released
yet).
11.01.2007
Added two new variants of the relay toggle flipflop,
both of which are supposed to actually work with relays.
The previous demo is still online, but one user reported
that the circuit has hazard-errors and can malfunction
depending on the switching speed of the relays.
30.11.2006
First ready-to-run D*CORE webdemo:
Sieve of Eratosthenes.
This includes the microcode and a simple assembly program
that calculates a few prime numbers.
17.11.2006
Several minor fixes:
correct broken links due to our webserver restructuring;
applets now include the help files for the waveform-viewer (styx);
add missing screenshots in the Femtojava (pipelined) demos;
update the MIPS R3000 demos.
03.11.2006
First applets showing the new TinyMips simulation model,
a simple MIPS-I (R2000/R3000) compatible 32-bit microprocessor.
Together with the corresponding memory (with byte-enable signals),
a complete and typical 32-bit microcontroller system can be built
and simulated.
This also lets you demonstrate the typical embedded systems
software development with a crosscompiler.
Documentation still incomplete, though.
25.10.2006
New simulation model of the 8251 UART (USART)
and several applet demos for it.
See the
USART 8251
applets.
13.10.2006
Back online; sorry for the downtime! Our servers were ok,
but the whole informatics department got disconnected from the internet
for almost tree days due to a damage glass-fibre.
30.05.2006
Uploaded a revised version of the
Hades tutorial.
12.04.2006
Uploaded a first set of applet demos using the MIPS-3000 processor.
04.01.2006
Several new cosimulation applets based on the PIC16F84 and
PIC16F628 microcontrollers.
21.03.2006
Added a set of 'Femtojava' processor architecture and cosimulation demos
(provided by Prof. Ferreira from UFRGS, Brazil).
16.11.2005
Added the 'news' and 'links' pages to the website.
10.11.2005
Several new state-machine demonstrations in the applet collection,
starting with a simple
binary counter.
15.09.2005
Switch-level simulation support in the simulation kernel via
class hades.signals.SignalStdLogicSwitched.
This allows simulating relays and transmission-gate circuits.
Please check out the new interactive
relay demonstration applets.
22.07.2005
Finally uploaded the redesigned and long-overdue new website.
Our
applet-collection is now online!