Implementational issues in CACSD

Abstract

The paper describes design considerations for a program for real-time testing of control algorithms in a laboratory environment. The algorithms are developed and tested using simulation in the MATLAB environment. The real-time code is built from the structure of the MATLAB script file using a matrix library with interface functions to MATLAB data files. Three real-time hardware platforms are analysed with respect to deriving a device independent program structure, facilitating portability among the three platforms and supporting portability to new platforms. The three platforms are: a transputer based system, an ADSP21020 based DSP system, and a MC 68030 based VME-bus system. The programming language is ANSI C.<>