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PORTING MICROC/OS-II TO THE TS-2800 EMBEDDED PC

by Robert Bowen

Start ı Where to Begin ı Development Tools ı Booting the TS-2800 ı Installing the MicroC/OS-II ı Creating a MicroC/OS-II Application ı Creating the GUI ı Future Goals ı Sources and PDF

FUTURE GOALS

There are still a few more things Iıd like to accomplish with my new development platform, such as installing a web server on either the desktop PC or the TS-2800 to allow for web-based control and monitoring. Iıd also like to eliminate using the serial port and take advantage of the onboard Ethernet port. This would allow for a higher data rate between the TS-2800 and desktop PC, among other things.

This embedded project was fun and clearly demonstrates the advantages of using an embedded PC and real-time kernel. The finished project can be seen in Photo 7. Iım looking forward to my next design. Buried deep inside my next embedded black box will be a full preemptive multitasking kernel!

Photo 7ıThere are several single board computers on the market. The TS-2800 provides a familiar DOS environment for quickly getting up to speed when developing with a real-time multitasking kernel.

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