Micro-Box is an affordable and robust platform for rapid control prototyping applications. Developed by TeraSoft Inc, a leading professional engineering solutions provider based in Taipei, Taiwan, Micro-Box works seamlessly with the MathWorks® family of products including MATLAB®, Simulink®, xPC Target™ and Real-Time Workshop (RTW)®, enabling engineers to model physical systems and execute them in real-time under harsh environmental conditions.
Micro-Box is a rugged, high-performance, industrial PC with no internal moving parts. The product supports all standard PC peripherals including video, mouse, and keyboard. For engineers who have real-time analysis and control systems testing needs, Micro-Box offers an excellent mix of performance, compact size, sturdiness, and I/O expandability. A selection of I/O options are available; PC/104 or PCI based AD/DA, DI/O and Counter (PWM) modules that address numerous prototyping requirements as well as support for SCI and TCP/IP. Micro-Box is integrated with MATLAB/Simulink allowing the user to conduct real-time modeling and simulation of control systems, rapid prototyping, and hardware-in-the-loop testing without the need of manual code generation and complicated debug processes. This results in significant cost savings and reduced development time.
When configured as part of a rapid prototyping system, Micro-Box is attached to a host computer running the standard MathWorks tools such as MATLAB, Simulink, xPC Target and Stateflow® (optional), operating under the Microsoft® Windows® operating system in non real-time mode. Micro-Box acts as a target PC where the user¡¦s application runs on a real-time operating system provided by xPC Target.
Applications are built on the host PC using Simulink, with xPC Target providing blocks to connect to I/O hardware. Real-Time Workshop generates and compiles C-code modules and links them to a Dynamic Linked Library (DLL). xPC Target transforms this DLL to a real-time application and downloads it onto the Micro-Box target PC.
Micro-Box can be configured for use in functional rapid prototyping, on-target rapid prototyping, or hardware-in-the-loop testing. |
