DEVELOPMENT OF AN AUTONOMOUS 32-BIT INTELLIGENT DEVICE CONTROLLER

Authors
BISHOP D WATERS G DALE D EWERT T HARRISON D LAM J KEITEL R
Citation
D. Bishop et al., DEVELOPMENT OF AN AUTONOMOUS 32-BIT INTELLIGENT DEVICE CONTROLLER, Nuclear instruments & methods in physics research. Section A, Accelerators, spectrometers, detectors and associated equipment, 352(1-2), 1994, pp. 236-238
Citations number
2
Categorie Soggetti
Nuclear Sciences & Tecnology","Physics, Particles & Fields","Instument & Instrumentation",Spectroscopy
Journal title
Nuclear instruments & methods in physics research. Section A, Accelerators, spectrometers, detectors and associated equipment → ACNP
ISSN journal
01689002
Volume
352
Issue
1-2
Year of publication
1994
Pages
236 - 238
Database
ISI
SICI code
0168-9002(1994)352:1-2<236:DOAA3I>2.0.ZU;2-M
Abstract
This paper describes the development and present status of an intellig ent device controller for embedded systems. The controller is a low-co st single-board module in Euro-card format based on a Motorola MC68332 microcontroller. An onboard Ethernet interface allows software downlo ading and remote device control. Also included are 12 ADC channels, 4 DAC channels, 56 bits of digital I/O and 3 serial ports. Custom module s may be added using a backplane bus. The controller is designed to fu nction as a VME slave device. A multitasking environment is provided b y the VxWorks kernel.