WELCOME
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Tenet is software for flexibly programming a tiered network of
sensors. Tiered networks consist of *motes* (currently Tenet supports
MicaZ and TelosB motes) and PC-class devices that we call *masters*
(our distribution includes binaries for Cygwin, Linux Fedore Core 3,
and Stargates). In Tenet, all applications run on the masters, and
task motes using a simple, yet expressive, linear data-flow tasking
language. 

This is an alpha release, since much of Tenet is under active
development. It is designed to give you a feel for some of Tenet's
main features:

- As an application developer, you don't have to write code for the
motes in order to develop your applications. In fact, you don't even
have to compile code for the motes -- our distribution includes a
pre-compiled Tenet binary image for MicaZ and TelosB.

- We provide several pre-compiled applications (more on this in the
installation instructions), but we also have included the ability for
you to compile your own Tenet application.

- You can run multiple applications concurrently, as described in the
installation instructions.

If you have any questions about this release, please feel free to
email tenet-users@enl.usc.edu. You may join this list to participate
in discussions about tenet.


INSTALLATION
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To install Tenet on mote network with a single base station:
    see doc/Single_Master_Install.HOWTO

To install Tenet on a tiered network with multiple Stargates or PCs:
    see doc/Multi_Master_Install.HOWTO

To learn about Tenet tasking:
    see doc/Tasking_API.HOWTO

To develop Tenet applications:
    see doc/Applications.HOWTO

If you would like to add mote-support to Tenet (e.g. new drivers or
tasklets), we'd encourage you to check out our CVS repository:

    http://enl.usc.edu/cgi-bin/viewcvs/viewcvs.cgi/tenet