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Abstract
It is very useful to form a general-purpose (that
is re-configurable) framework for HIL
(Hardware in Loop Testing) of digital hardware.
In many cases we simulate the digital hardware
during the design time and we have different
tools for viewing the result whether the design is
working fine or not. But when we actually need
to test the actual hardware these many tools are
helpless. And also it is advisable that the
framework is become very helpful if it is able in
the case of combination as well as sequential
circuits. And it is also found that if this interface
is re-configurable in the sense that one can write
their own test algorithms, and one can also
specify the hardware connection for there test
hardware (that is probing). And keeping this in
mind I have developed a framework with microcontroller kit (which is simply can be designed)
and well-known MATLAB software. We have
chosen this kit because this kit contains variety
of we have chosen this micro-controller because
this contains variety of interfaces and many
digital I/Os. And it is easily available [1]. We
have chosen matlab because matlab is one of
powerful tool to test and verify algorithms and
designs [4]. In this framework we have
interfaced hardware kit, test hardware with
MATLAB through serial interfaces.
1. Introduction
Keeping this in mind we have developed a
framework with a standard Intel 8051
architecture microcontroller (which is one of the
most versatile microcontroller families) and well
known Keil software for programming in C. We
have chosen this microcontroller because this
contains variety of interfaces and many digital
2. Background
As we all know that MATLAB stands for
MATrix LABoratory. It is developed by The
Mathworks, Inc. (http://www.mathworks.com). It
is an interactive, integrated, environment for
numerical
computations,
for
scientific
visualizations [4].
It is a high-level programming
language. Program runs in interpreted, as
opposed to compiled, mode. Programming
3. Proposed Framework
We think to develop a framework which is able
to test the digital hardware and we wanted to
explore the capabilities of Micro-controller and
MATLAB both. Therefore we proposed an
interface between microcontrollers with the help
of serial communication interface with PC.
Figure 3. Adding the source in the project
4. Conclusion
We found that the framework which we
have developed Matlab integration with
Microcontroller for test & Debug interface
supports development and testing of different
digital hardware, including ICs, project boards
and digital industrial setups etc..
5. Future Scope
We are working on generating the
standard M-scripting files for different test
applications.
It is also very informative to generate
the GUI for this testing framework, so that one
can develop the test algorithm with ease.
In laboratory work the setup can be
used for demonstration purpose to the students.
Also it is possible to incorporate the standard test
algorithm of testing the digital hardware. And
also one can attempt to generate the subsystem
for analog circuit testing.
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