Title :
The flexible control design workstation
Author :
Evans, G.C. ; Hicks, J.A.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Electron. & Syst. Eng., Coventry Polytech., UK
Abstract :
Every design engineer has a PC on which he can run a whole battery of design-assisting software. The workstation described furthers this design assistance so that direct contact between controlling micro and the engineering device is achieved and real time evaluation of the performance of the system can be made. The workstation is based upon a PC whose expansion bus has been extended via a buffer card and a ribbon cable to an external Euro rack. A wide range of I/O boards and support software has been designed to allow easy access to the instrumentation of an engineering system. Initial real time evaluation can now proceed with the PC being the controlling micro
Keywords :
CAD; computer interfaces; engineering workstations; microcomputer applications; I/O boards; PC; buffer card; controlling micro; design engineer; design-assisting software; engineering device; expansion bus; external Euro rack; flexible control design workstation; real time; ribbon cable;
Conference_Titel :
Eurocard Computers - A Solution to Low Cost Control? IEE Colloquium on
Conference_Location :
London
