Reconfigurable simulation platform for application design and development

摘要

Dealing with the prototype development and application design for distributed system in the field of industry automation, a method of establishing a control area network based platform with integrated simulation, test and development is discussed in order to achieve a standardized design and support network reconfiguration. At first, the physical elements that have different IO bus modules are installed, secondly, the functions are accomplished with software that presents a detailed configuration for the user to monitor and simulation. By testing the network requirement for real-time data transmission, the application simulation for the use of equipment fault monitor is presented as case study at last. The platform has the versatility, scalability and good real-time performance. Simulation result shows that the average delay of a single module is in within the threshold. The platform provides the technical basis and reference for the development of other distributed, networked equipment control systems.