Workstation for Integrated System Design and Development

Hardware in the loop simulation has been proven as a very cost effective method in design, development, modification and testing of sophisticated industrial control systems. The Workstation for Integrated System Design and Development presented in this article allows: highly efficient real time simulation of dynamic systems using the available multiprocessor resources, micropro-cessor control system design and implementa-tion using suitable software package for synthesis and code generation, testing and verification of microprocessor based controller using real time interaction with multiproces-sor simulator. The hardware configuration of Workstation for ISDD is based on inexpensive general purpose single board computers, which are very attractive and more favorable in speed/cost ratio in relation to the other powerful single processor solution. The appropriate examples show the applicability of these multi-microprocessor resources in: real time simulation of linear time invariant systems, comparative analysis of different discretization techniques and digital control system design and testing. Key words: multiprocessor resources, digital real time simulation, code genera-tion, ordinary differential equations, system decomposition, numerical integration, discretization methods, integrated system design and development, task allocation