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Designing Technomadic Systems

By Steven K. Roberts and N4RVE, June 01, 1998

Microship, a technomadic vehicle/environment designed for open-ended coastal and inland travel, depends on embedded systems for everything from navigation to digital-video production.


Designing Technomadic Systems

Designing Technomadic Systems

By Steven K. Roberts, N4RVE

Dr. Dobb's Journal June 1998

Figure 2: (a) Grand Central Station, a homemade audio, video, and serial crossbar network that is central to Microship resource management. DB-9 matrix of serial connectors is at upper left, built atop the Sexbar hardware; Vixbar is at lower left cabled to patch panel on far right; Auxbar is the large two-board stack. (b) The Hub, a folding assembly with the prototyping area (nexus) opened for service. The exposed layer is all New Micros 2×4 I/O boards bussed together with 34-pin ribbon; the Hub processor itself is underneath this panel. Peeking out from under the nexus is one of four Phoenix Contact distribution blocks that break out 34-pin ribbon cable to screw terminals.

Copyright © 1998, Dr. Dobb's Journal



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