A hardware and software programmable platform for industrial embedded application

Platform-Based Design (PBD) is an appropriate method to make a trade-off among different requirements and constraints in embedded systems, such as power, performance and cost. This paper presents a hardware and software all programmable platform with a processor-programmable logic hardware architecture and a Real-Time Operating System (RTOS) centric software architecture. The corresponding RTOS-centric methodology is also proposed for this platform with two core features, one is programmability and reusability in both software and hardware to guarantee the flexibility for different applications, the other is the hardware/software co-design to optimize the design. The proposed platform has been applied in several industrial fields and shows its characteristics.