Computer aided design of microprocessor-based systems
DAC '78 Proceedings of the 15th Design Automation Conference
Computer-aided design of microprocessor-based controllers.
Computer-aided design of microprocessor-based controllers.
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The crisis in cost and availability of energy has led to the development of digital monitoring and control systems which manage and reduce energy consumption in a wide range of facilities. Large energy management systems incorporate distributed processing architectures and a wide range of manual and automatic functions. Design and implementation of such systems poses serious problems of function and algorithm definition, data communications, and optimization of physically dispersed processor networks. This paper describes the application of a structured design methodology which addresses the problem of interdisciplinary communication in energy management system realization and greatly simplifies the development of the wide range of software required. Also considered are questions of proper data communication design for the unique environment encountered in such situations and optimum implementation of the distributed processing architecture for the functional priorities of the energy conservation application.