FPGA AS A PART OF MS WINDOWS CONTROL ENVIRONMENT

The attention is focused on the Windows operating system (OS) used as a control and measurementenvironment. Windows OS due to extensions becomes a real-time OS (RTOS).Benefits and drawbacks of typical software extensions are compared. As far as hardwaresolutions are concerned the field programmable gate arrays FPGA technology is proposed toensure fast time-critical operations. FPGA-based parallel execution and hardware implementationof the data processing algorithms significantly outperform the classical microprocessoroperating modes. Suitability of the RTOS for a particular application and FPGA hardwaremaintenance is studied