Re: SMP

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microsoft.public.vc.language
Date:
Thu, 15 Feb 2007 07:59:42 -0800
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Thanks for the reply.What I am trying to do is to program or flash 10
or more microcontrollers at a time.The target boards are nothing but
Electronic control units.I may be programming either the internal
flash or an external flash in it.I need to communicate the target with
the help of CAN.But i have drivers for communicating to CAN and also
the driver to program the flash. I need to do all the 10 or more at
a time.But I have no idea how to design and how to approach the
problem.I am looking to implement in windows platform.Hope I am a
little bit more clear.If I am not ,i can still explain u more.


I see.
What you can do is to create a function that programs 1 device.
Then your program can start 10 threads, with that function as thread function.
You can pass a parameter to that thread function to identify which device to
program.

That way, you can flash all 10 devices at the same time.
A requirement is that the CAN library is threadsafe of course.

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