YETI: A TinyOS Plug-in for Eclipse

Wireless ad hoc and sensor networks are constantly gaining importance due to their wide range of possible applications. The employed sensor hardware and software is becoming more complex and projects realized by means of sensor networks are increasingly ambitious. Despite these rapid advantages tools for sensor network development are still very primitive: A generic text editor and a command line shell are the common tools used by the majority of sensor network developers. In this paper we present YETI, a TinyOS plug-in for Eclipse. Besides the basic functionality known from other development environments YETI features a set of specially optimized tools for TinyOS development.