Microflex Platform and Experience of its Application for Development of Various Control and Measuring Devices and Systems

Abstract

In order to reduce the cost of creating electronic control and measuring devices, a special platform is developed. Its firmware component contains some system nodes and elements: a process switch, an interrupt handler, job and data pipelines, interface drivers, a library of standard functions and algorithms. The hardware contains communication mechanisms between several microprocessors on a single printed circuit board and between distributed devices. The application of the platform made it possible to optimally use the internal resources of microprocessors with a reduced set of instructions, allowed reducing the development time and component costs, and let one obtain highly efficient device parameters in minimum dimensions. The Microflex platform has been successfully used to develop dozens of complex devices, real-time systems, embedded and distributed control systems.