Design of a microcomputer platform with real-time operating system for laboratory projects

Author

Jovalekic, Silvije ; Rieger, Martin ; Runge, Ralph

Author_Institution

Sch. of Inf. Technol. & Eng., Fachhochschule Albstadt-Sigmaringen, Albstadt, Germany

Volume

3

fYear

1997

Firstpage

1383

Abstract

In the School of Information Technology and Engineering a microcomputer incorporating a real-time operating system has been designed To be used in various laboratory projects. The hardware is composed mainly of standard components like MC68332 processor and memory modules. The memory controller and a multiport unit have been designed using VHDL and are realised with EPLDs. The background debug mode facility of the processor enabled the fast and successful development from scratch. The real-time operating system was designed to be lean, yet including sufficient features to solve real world problems. It was developed incrementally using object oriented methods. The requirements, development methodology and experience gained during its development in several undergraduate research projects are described in detail including the specification process, creation of user manuals, testing procedures and benchmarks

Keywords

computer science education; hardware description languages; information technology; microcomputer applications; object-oriented methods; programmable logic devices; real-time systems; student experiments; EPLD; MC68332 processor; School of Information Technology and Engineering; VHDL; background debug mode facility; benchmarks; development methodology; laboratory projects; memory controller; memory modules; microcomputer platform design; multiport unit; object oriented methods; procedures testing; real world problems; real-time operating system; specification process; undergraduate research projects; user manuals creation; Application software; Design engineering; Embedded system; Information technology; Laboratories; Microcomputers; Operating systems; Random access memory; Real time systems; Workstations;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Frontiers in Education Conference, 1997. 27th Annual Conference. Teaching and Learning in an Era of Change. Proceedings.

Conference_Location

Pittsburgh, PA

ISSN

0190-5848

Print_ISBN

0-7803-4086-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/FIE.1997.632681

Filename

632681