In response to a request from a robotics magazine for an overview of the SRV-1 Blackfin architecture, I wrote the following.  Perhaps this will also provide a useful summary for new SRV-1 Blackfin users ...
 
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From a hardware perspective, our products are organized as follows -  
 
1.  The SRV-1 Blackfin Camera - this is our core Blackfin processor card with a 1.3MPix camera module and a 32-pin expansion bus, as described here -  
      http://www.surveyor.com/blackfin/
 
2.  A set of expansion i/o circuit boards, mostly as open source published here - http://www.surveyor.com/blackfin/#blackfin1 - in Eagle PCB format, though some 3rd party expansion boards already exist, including one from www.abotics.com.  The main configurations are the "Combo Matchport / Motor Driver" and the forthcoming "Stereo Camera".  These boards host the SRV-1 Blackfin Cameras, the Matchport WiFi radio module, H-bridge motor interface, transistor drivers for laser pointers or LED lighting, and provide regulated 3.3V from the battery source,  
 
3. A motorized robot base - the latest version was a cooperative design with Inertia Labs - http://www.inertialabs.com/srv.htm
 
The SRV-1 Blackfin Robot is comprised of the SRV-1 Blackfin Camera, the combo Matchport / motor board, and the new Inertia Labs base.  The main point I wanted to make is that many of our customers and projects build around just the SRV-1 Blackfin Camera or Blackfin Camera + radio / motor board.  Examples of this include -  
      http://www.surveyor.com/cgi-bin/robot_journal.cgi/2008/02/04#141
      http://www.societyofrobots.com/robot_ERP.shtml
      http://www.surveyor.com/YARB.html
      http://www.surveyor.com/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1205375683
      http://www.surveyor.com/cgi-bin/robot_journal.cgi/2007/11/25#130
      http://www.surveyor.com/cgi-bin/robot_journal.cgi/2008/02/03#140
 
 
From a software perspective, it is worth mentioning that there is a uClinux port to the SRV-1 Blackfin Camera, but the default configuration preferred by most users is "bare metal" (no operating system) code that is published as open source that fits 100% in the L1 cache of the Blackfin and runs very fast.   The command interface to the firmware is described here -  
      http://www.surveyor.com/SRV_protocol.html
 
All of the 3rd party software for the SRV-1 such as Microsoft Robotics Studio, Roborealm, Webots, interfaces to the SRV-1 Blackfin through this protocol, as do our java-based SRV1Console, python-based pySRV1Console, and various customer-published consoles and development environments, e.g.
      http://www.voxatec.com/
      http://www.transterpreter.org/
      http://www.swarthmore.edu/NatSci/mhsieh1/Courses/E28/
      http://agents.sci.brooklyn.cuny.edu/robotics.edu/bcsoftware.php
 
Also built into the SRV-1 firmware is picoC C interpreter.
 
So there are 3 main modes of interfacing to / controlling the SRV-1 -
 
1.  use one of the above-mentioned console / development environments
 
2.  write code for the on-board picoC interpreter
 
3.  modify and recompile the SRV-1 firmware using the GNU bfin-elf-gcc compiler toolchain or Analog Device's VDSP++
 
Our users are fairly evenly divided in these approaches, and you will find active discussions of these various efforts on the Surveyor Robotics Forum - http://www.surveyor.com/robot_forum.html
 
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You don't need the complete robot.  Take a look at  
       http://www.surveyor.com/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1234544290
 
This will tell you a bit about using the C interpreter.
 
As regards transferring your C program to the SRV-1, it depends on your host computer.  If you are using Linux, you can use a script like "send1" -  
 
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echo type X [enter], then control-C, to start XMODEM file transfer of $1  
nc 192.168.0.15 10001
sleep 1
lsz -Xkbv --tcp-client 192.168.0.15:10001 $1
sleep 1
nc 192.168.0.15 10001
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If you are on windows, you need a terminal program such as TeraTerm -  
       http://hp.vector.co.jp/authors/VA002416/teraterm.html
that supports XMODEM file transfers.
 
On Windows with TeraTerm, when you connect, the host is the IP address of the SRV1, the TCP port is 10001, and you want to UNCHECK Telnet. If you leave Telnet selected, you will have problems with file transfer. As soon as you connect, send a 'V' to get the version string - that will let you know that things are working. To transfer a file, send 'X' to start XMODEM receive on the SRV-1, then from Tera Term, select:
     File .. Transfer .. XMODEM .. send
and select your file, or from the keyboard, use these shortcuts:
     ALT-F .. T .. X .. S
From your terminal program, you should see:
     ##Xmodem success. Count: 33792
 
Once your program has been transferred, you can run it by issuing the 'Q' command
 
Here is an example program -
 
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    int x;
    char ch;
 
    ch = 0;
    while (ch == 0) {
       x = range();   /* user laser pointer ranging */
       print("range = " x);
       if (x < 30) {
           motors(-50 , 50);
       } else {
           motors(50, 50);
       }
       delay(500);
       ch = input();  /* continue until any console input */
    }  
    motors(0, 0);
    exit();

Sorry - this post is out-of-date.  Look instead at  
    http://www.surveyor.com/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1239459317
for using the onboard C interpreter.
 
Otherwise, you need to use the firmware posted here -  
    http://code.google.com/p/surveyor-srv1-firmware/
as a starting point.  The compiler toolchain is found here -  
    http://www.surveyor.com/blackfin/#blackfin4
 

MSVS isn't going to help you - the Blackfin toolchain is essentially command-line based.  Your best bet in such a short timeframe is to start working with picoC.
 
picoC is already built into the SRV-1 firmware - you don't need to download anything to have that capability.  Look at http://www.surveyor.com/C.html to get a better idea of picoC usage.