# Description of the WEDS Project

by Dogu Arifler and Brian Evans

## Introduction

The Web-Enabled Simulation (WEDS) Project involves the design and development of an easy-to-use graphical user interface (GUI) that will enable the users to simulate software for digital signal processor and microcontroller processors and boards interactively. The GUI is a Web-based tool which will be accessed by the users who have access to a suitable Web browser, such as Netscape 2.0 or higher, that can run Java applets. By having access to an interactive user-interface emulators and debuggers on the Web, users will not need physical boards to test their initial designs.

## Objectives

- Design a configurable, portable, extensible GUI for DSP and microcontroller processor emulators and board-level debuggers
- Design a configurable, portable, extensible TCP/IP server for DSP and microcontroller processor emulators and board-level debuggers
- Investigate the advantages of Web-based computer simulations
- Research the benefits of separating applications and their GUIs
- Develop command-line processor emulators and board-level debuggers built on existing validated freely distributable software if possible.

Last updated: 07/29/98