Embedding the MatPLC

Author

De Sousa, Mário ; Carvalho, Adriano ; Ferreira, Rafael

Author_Institution

Dept. de Engenharia Electrotecnica e de Computadores, Porto Univ.

Volume

2

fYear

2005

fDate

19-22 Sept. 2005

Lastpage

922

Abstract

The MatPLC is an international project to develop a program similar to a PLC (programmable logic controller) for POSIX operating systems. It is an open source application consisting of a core, generic modules, and tools for creating custom modules. Since many control and monitoring systems are distributed in nature, they require that the application be running on an embedded system capable of withstanding harsh environments. This paper describes the porting of the MatPLC code base to a commercial embedded system running on a PowerPC CPU. Time measurements were taken to determine whether the resulting code would be suitable for control applications

Keywords

control engineering computing; embedded systems; operating systems (computers); programmable controllers; MatPLC; PLC; POSIX operating system; PowerPC CPU; embedded system; open source application; programmable logic controller; Application software; Control systems; Embedded system; Hardware; Libraries; Memory management; Modems; Operating systems; Programmable control; Time measurement;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation, 2005. ETFA 2005. 10th IEEE Conference on

Conference_Location

Catania

Print_ISBN

0-7803-9401-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ETFA.2005.1612770

Filename

1612770