Tutorial: From ‘hello world’ to a full application

In this tutorial we’ll walk through the process of building a SpiNNaker application using the Rig library. This series of tutorials builds up from ‘hello world’ to eventually building full-blown digital circuit simulator. This tutorial is aimed at people who wish to build applications for SpiNNaker and gives a broad overview of how a SpiNNaker application might be structured and how Rig can be used to handle the boring details of interacting with and using a SpiNNaker machine.

Note

This tutorial presumes you are moderately familliar with Python and C and have some basic familiarity with the ‘Spin1 API’ and SARK libraries used to write software which runs on SpiNNaker itself.

• 00: Introduction
• 01: Hello World
• 02: Reading and Writing SDRAM
• 03: Reading and Writing SDRAM - Improved
• 04: Circuit Simulation Proof-of-Concept
• 05: Circuit Simulation