A 68000-based produce sorting microcomputer : graduate clinical research master\u27s report

This report discusses in great detail the various research, design, and development stages of the Produce Sorting Microcomputer developed for HAGAN ENGINEERING Inc. The two-semester Clinical Research project has been approved by the graduate committee at the School of Engineering at the University of the Pacific and fulfills the requirements towards a Master Degree in Electrical Engineering. The project was selected based on its complexity, feasibility, the time span it required to complete, and its relevance to the area of real time microcomputer design. In addition, the design constraints and specifications were to be dictated solely by HAGAN ENGINEERING Inc. and all further modifications were to be discussed and approved by HAGAN. These limitations created a professional industry-like atmosphere, which is one of the goals of the Clinical Research Program. A brief User\u27s Manual will accompany the MC68000 board; it will contain all the vital information about the system that a programmer or a technician might need to understand the system. The manual wall contain the complete circuit schematic, a parts list, general design features, and all the software properties of the system (memory map, interrupt tables register map)

The Condor Programmer's Manual - Version II

This is the CONDOR programmer's manual, that describes the hardware and software that form the basis of the real-time computational architecture built originally for the Utah-MIT hand. The architecture has been used successfully to control the hand and the MIT-Serial Link Direct Drive Arm in the past. A number of such systems are being built to address the computational needs of other robotics research efforts in and around the lab. This manual, which is intended primarily for programmers/users of the CONDOR system, represents our effort at documenting the system so that it can be a generally useful research tool.MIT Artificial Intelligence Laborator

Implementation and design of a teleoperation system based on a VMEBUS/68020 pipelined architecture

A pipelined control design and architecture for a force-feedback teleoperation system that is being implemented at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and which will be integrated with the autonomous portion of the testbed to achieve share control is described. At the local site, the operator sees real-time force/torque displays and moves two 6-degree of freedom (dof) force-reflecting hand-controllers as his hands feel the contact force/torques generated at the remote site where the robots interact with the environment. He also uses a graphical user menu to monitor robot states and specify system options. The teleoperation software is written in the C language and runs on MC68020-based processor boards in the VME chassis, which utilizes a real-time operating system; the hardware is configured to realize a four-stage pipeline configuration. The environment is very flexible, such that the system can easily be configured as a stand-alone facility for performing independent research in human factors, force control, and time-delayed systems

PCOS - An Operating System for Modular Applications

This paper is an introduction to the PCOS operating system for the MC68000 family processors. Topics covered are; development history; development support; rational for development of PCOS and salient characteristics; architecture; and a brief comparison of PCOS to UNIX

Software Reverse Engineering in the Real World

Symposium: Copyright Protection and Reverse Engineering of Softwar

SAGA: A project to automate the management of software production systems

The SAGA system is a software environment that is designed to support most of the software development activities that occur in a software lifecycle. The system can be configured to support specific software development applications using given programming languages, tools, and methodologies. Meta-tools are provided to ease configuration. The SAGA system consists of a small number of software components that are adapted by the meta-tools into specific tools for use in the software development application. The modules are design so that the meta-tools can construct an environment which is both integrated and flexible. The SAGA project is documented in several papers which are presented

Submicron Systems Architecture: Semiannual Technical Report

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