Embedding the MatPLC

• Type: Article in International Conference Proceedings Book
• Date: 2005

Authors

Mário de Sousa (Author) FEUP; Adriano Carvalho (Author) FEUP; Rafael Ferreira (Author) FEUP

Conference proceedings International

Title: Proceedings of the 10th IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation (ETFA'05)

Pages: 917-922

IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation (ETFA'05)

Catania, Italy, 19 a 22 de Setembro de 2005

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Scientific classification

FOS: Engineering and technology > Electrical engineering, Electronic engineering, Information engineering

CORDIS: Technological sciences > Engineering > Control engineering > Automation

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Abstract (EN): 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 ofthe 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.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific

No. of pages: 6