Low Cost and Embedded Control Technology for Mobile Applications

A graphical system design platform for embedded control can incorporate both real-time processors and reconfigurable hardware. Software tools used for graphical system design must allow for both graphical and textual programming methods. Traditional programming and scripting languages such as C/C++ and VHDL may be included as needed within an open development platform.

By integrating graphical system design software with modular, off-the-shelf hardware devices and targets, a system designer can quickly move from design and simulation to prototyping and deployment. This session will introduce graphical system design methodologies along with software and hardware tools for embedded control. Demonstrations of low cost and mobile devices will be given to show how software may be re-used throughout the development process. The speakers will discuss several educational and research problems which have been addressed with these tools.