I-51-01E-010

ITRON Newsletter No.10
ITRON Technical Committee, TRON Association

Katsuta Building 5F, 3-39, Mita 1-chome, Minato-ku, Tokyo 108, JAPANTEL: (03) 3454-3191
FAX: (03) 3454-3224
tations and discussions is given in TRONWARE Vol.
29 (available in Japan from Personal Media Corp.; inJapanese).
At least half of the participants stayed for the reception afterwards, providing an opportunity for fellowship mixed with trade talk.
Date: Friday, July 22, 1994; 10:00am{5:30pm
Place: TEPIA Hall (Aoyama, Tokyo)
Program:
1. Update on the ITRON Subproject
K. Tamaru (Toshiba Corporation)
2. Outline of ITRON3.0
S. Yamada (Hitachi, Ltd.)
3. Development tools for ITRON\A multitask debugger for SPARClite(XRAY MTD/Spectra)"I. Kobayashi (Nihon Microtec Research K.K.)\A multitask debugger for MULTI"
H. Fukutomi (Advanced Data Controls)
4. Panel discussion\Toward a standard debugging environmentfor ITRON"
Moderator: K. Tamaru (Toshiba Corporation)
I. Kobayashi (Nihon Microtec Research K.K.)
H. Fukutomi (Advanced Data Controls)
T. Kodama (Yokogawa-Hewlett-Packard Co., Ltd.)
T. Takahashi (Mitsubishi Semiconductor Software Corp.)
K. Kudoh (Fujitsu Device Limited)
H. Takada (Univ. of Tokyo)
5. New ITRON-related products\REALOS/SP: a ITRON-speci cation OS
for SPARClite"
Y. Kobayashi (Fujitsu Limited)\HI-SH7: a ITRON-speci cation OS
for SH microcomputers"
T. Hamada (Hitachi, Ltd.)\The MR1600 and MR3800 OS products"
H. Muraki (Mitsubishi Semiconductor Software Corp.)\TR-9000 ITRON-speci cation OS for TLCS-9000/16"
N. Yamauchi (Toshiba Corporation)
6. Special Speech: \A Decade of ITRON"
K. Sakamura (Univ. of Tokyo)

ITRON-related Publications

Listed in another page are the publications preparedand issued by the ITRON Technical Committee asof August 1, 1994. The ITRON-ITRON StandardHandbook is a one-volume compilation of ITRON(Ver 2.0) and ITRON2 speci cations. Each of thepublications can be obtained directly from the sourcesindicated.
The latest version of ITRON3.0 is now Ver
3.01.00. Changes made since the ITRON3.0 Standard Handbook was released (Ver 3.00.00) are noted
in Newsletter No.5.
The ITRON Standard Guidebook '92-'93 still applies to users of ITRON (Ver 2.0) and ITRON2 speci cations, even though the dates in its title are nowpast. When a new edition of the ITRON Standard
Guidebook is issued, it will be targeted primarily atthe ITRON3.0 speci cation.
Report on ITRON Open Seminar

The ITRON Open Seminar was held July 22 in Tokyo,
as outlined below. Before this year these seminars
were held under the name \ITRON Product Seminar"; the latest seminar, newly named, is the fourth
since the series got under way. The ITRON Technical Committee plans to continue holding these events
annually, as a way of keeping users informed of recent developments relating to ITRON speci cations
and their implementations.
The theme of this year's seminar was \ITRON
3.0-speci cation products starting to appear," as itsought to introduce new operating systems implementing the latest ITRON speci cations. At the same time
the seminar introduced development tools for ITRONspeci cation OS environments, and featured a panel
discussion on standardizing the debugging interface
for ITRON. Around 100 persons attended this lively
and successful event. A detailed account of the preseny This newsletter is reprinted from TRONWARE vol.29 and

TRON PROJECT BIMONTHLY No.34.

1I-51-01E-010
ITRON-related Publications

NameTypePrice
Publisher
ISBN No.
ITRON-ITRON Standard Handbook Speci cation (Japanese)
4,800Yen Personal Media Co. 4-89362-079-7
ITRON3.0 Standard Handbook
Speci cation (Japanese)
4,000Yen Personal Media Co. 4-89362-106-8
ITRON/FILE Standard Handbook
Speci cation (Japanese)
3,000Yen Personal Media Co. 4-89362-092-4
ITRON Standard Guidebook '92-'93
Textbook (Japanese)
3,500Yen Personal Media Co. 4-89362-197-6
ITRON Speci cation Ver 2.01.00.00
Speci cation (English) 12,000Yen TRON Association{
ITRON2 Speci cation Ver 2.02.00.10
Speci cation (English) 15,000Yen TRON Association{
ITRON3.0 Speci cation Ver 3.00.00
Speci cation (English){TRON Association{
NOTES:- Prices do not include consumption tax.
- The documents issued by the TRON Association are available to Association members at a special discount rate.
- English-language speci cations are distributed free of charge on the Internet as explained in Newsletter No.8.
Introducing Applications

In our last newsletter, in reporting on the awards given
to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the TRON
Project, we noted that Roland Corporation wasgiven an application product development award for
its electronic musical instruments using an ITRONspeci cation OS kernel. Here we present a brief description of three Roland products adopting this kernel, which were decisive factors in the rm's receiving
this award.
In future issues of the newsletter we would liketo introduce other applications of ITRON speci cations wherever possible. Anyone interested in having their application spotlighted should contact theITRON Technical Committee.

JW-50 music workstation

string and wind instruments.
The recording and playback function is operated
just like a tape recorder, and the unit incorporates
a wide variety of sound colors. The recorded performance data can be played back at di erent tempos
without altering the pitch; or the key can be changed
while keeping the original tempo. This exibility enables it to be used e ectively for lessons at all levelsof pro ciency.
The JW-50 combines in one product a 16-multitimbre synthesizer, 16-part sequencer, and 16-partcompu-mixer, each with its own highly advanced functions. The result is a total music workstation for carrying out all aspects of musical creation.
This product makes it possible to create music in ashort time, without bothering about system con guration or MIDI settings. What's more, this new kindof creative tool can be used across a whole range ofmusic genres.
All three of these products incorporate a 3.5-inch
oppy disk drive, allowing the created data to be saved
on a disk.
These products all make use of a ITRONspeci cation real-time OS, and are therefore able toprovide real-time response in ordinary performance

KR-5500 electronic piano with automatic
accompaniment function
MT-120 music recorder with built-in synthesizer
JW-50 music workstation

Roland Corporation

The KR-5500 brings a new dimension of enjoyment
to keyboard instruments, combining the natural touchand sound of a piano with such functions as automatic accompaniment, a piano style arranger, and awide range of other musical expression. It is further
equipped with a convenient recording and playback
facility and song composer function, enabling users tolisten to their own performances, and to create pieces
with a variety of sound colors. Numerous other application.
The MT-120 is intended mainly for music training,
through music-minus-one and ensemble playing functions. It makes use of a wealth of musical data to allow
training on many kinds of instruments, from digital piano, guitar and synthesizer to violin, ute and other2

I-51-01E-010
and button operations, as well as the operation of
MIDI functions. Moreover, the real-time response is in
no way hindered by disk access or display operations,or by editing operations and the like.
Recent Works on ITRONThe ITRON subproject is featured in TRONWARE
Vol. 29. The issue introduces an ITRON-speci cation
kernel available as free software. An application example is introduced where a ITRON-speci cation kernel is used for micromouse1 control. The issue comescomplete with a oppy disk containing the source codefor ItIs, the ITRON-speci cation real-time kernel developed in the Sakamura Laboratory at University ofTokyo.

1 A micromouse is an electronic robot that gets around on
its own, using sensors to detect walls and other objects. The
name \mouse" comes from its ability to nd its way out ofmaze, like a laboratory rat. The ITRON-based micromousehas been featured in a contest where such robots match theirskills against each other.

3