Embedded Systems Control Lab Workstation Data Sheet
Eugene Cohen
 


16-Bit Motorola Microcontroller Boards

 
MATRIXx Software Requirements:

  • IBM-PC Compatible
  • Windows 95 or NT 4.0
  • 10-BASE-T Ethernet Card

MATRIXx Features:

  • Visual Design Environment
  • "High-Fidelity" Simulation
  • Standalone Interactive Simulation Environment
  • Automatic Target-Independent C or Ada Code Generation

 

Graphical Environment of MATRIXx

 

The Embedded Systems Control Lab Workstation is a tool for rapidly designing embedded control systems, using the combination of the MATRIXx suite of software tools for modeling and simulating control systems and the AC-104 hardware platform for performing "hardware-in-the-loop" verification of the control system running code automatically generated by MATRIXx.

The Workstation also provides software tools for implementing the design in a production environment on any of the 16-bit series of Motorola microcontrollers (683xx). The target-indpendent code generated by MATRIXx can be implemented on microcontrollers systems, include the line of Motorola 683xx microcontrollers, in addition to the AC-104 test platform.

 


AC-104 Hardware

AC-104 Features:

  • 486DX 120 MHz or Pentium 166 MHz CPU
  • 4 MB or 8 MB DRAM
  • Floppy, SVGA, IDE, Keyboard/Mouse Interface
  • Ethernet, Parallel & 2 Serial Ports
  • 4 MB Flash Disk
  • 16 Programmable-Range Analog Inputs
    Max Range: +/- 10 V, Unipolar or Bipolar
  • 8 Jumper-Selectable Range Analog Outputs
    Max Range: +/- 10 V, Unipolar or Bipolar
  • 40 Digital I/O Channels (TTL)
  • 4 FIFO-Buffered Serial Ports

 


User design process details have yet to be determined and will be provided after the workstation has been established.