Article: Chip sets help bring PC architectures to embedded control. (Technical)

In the face of shrinking product-development cycles, one option available for embedded-control system designers is to use an industry-standard architecture as the product's processing engine, rather than designing the engine from scratch. Using a ready-made architecture lets you focus your development efforts on your most important system component--software. The IBM PC/XT and PC/AT are good candidates because their core-logic design has already been captured in PC chip sets, further shortening design time. Unfortunately, suppliers of these sets are geared toward high-volume applications, not embedded control.

The PC architectures offer numerous advantages as ...

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