CompactRIO embedded system in Power Quality Analysis

Author

Bilik, Petr ; Koval, Ludvik ; Hajduk, Jiri

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Meas., VSB-Tech. Univ., Ostrava

fYear

2008

fDate

20-22 Oct. 2008

Firstpage

577

Lastpage

580

Abstract

Electrical measurement department of VSB-Technical University has been involved for more than 14 years in research and development of power quality analyzer built on virtual instrumentation technology. PC-based power quality analyzer with National Instruments data acquisition board was designed and developed in this time frame. National Instruments LabVIEW is used as the development environment for all parts of power quality analyzer software running under MS Windows OS. Proved PC-based firmware was ported to new hardware platform for virtual instrumentation - National Instruments CompactRIO at the end of 2007. Platform change from PC to CompactRIO is not just code recompilation, but it brings up many needs for specific software redesigns. Paper describes how the monolithic executable for PC-based instruments was divided into three software layers to be ported on CompactRIO platform. The code for different parts of CompactRIO instrument is developed in a unified development environment no matter if the code is intended for FPGA, real-time processor of PC running Windows OS.

Keywords

data acquisition; embedded systems; firmware; power engineering computing; power supply quality; CompactRIO embedded system; LabVIEW; MS Windows OS; National Instruments; PC-based firmware; VSB-Technical University; data acquisition board; power quality analysis; research and development; virtual instrumentation technology; Data acquisition; Electric variables measurement; Embedded system; Hardware; Instruments; Microprogramming; Power measurement; Power quality; Research and development; Software quality; CompactRIO; FPGA; LabVIEW; Power Quality; VxWorks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computer Science and Information Technology, 2008. IMCSIT 2008. International Multiconference on

Conference_Location

Wisia

Print_ISBN

978-83-60810-14-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IMCSIT.2008.4747301

Filename

4747301