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    Intelligent medical device integration with real time operating system : a thesis submitted to the School of Engineering in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Engineering, Department of Electronics and Computer Syetem [i.e. Systems] Engineering at Massey University, [Albany], New Zealand
    (Massey University, 2009) Jan, Zaid
    Many commercial devices now being produced have the ability to be remotely monitored and controlled. This thesis aims to develop a generic platform that can easily be extended to interface with many different kinds of devices for remote monitoring and control via a TCP/IP connection. The deployment will be concentrated on Medical devices but can be extended to all serial device interfaces. The hardware to be used in the development of this platform is an ARM Cortex M3 based Micro-Controller board which has to be designed to meet the requirement set by the Precept Health the founder of this platform. The design was conducted at Massey University in collaboration with senior engineer from the company. The main task in achieving the aim was the development of the necessary software layers to implement remote monitoring and control. The eCosCentric real-time embedded operating system was used to form a generic base for developing applications to monitor and control specific devices. The majority of the work involved in this project was the deployment of the operating system to the Micro-Controller. During the development process, several hardware issues were discovered with the Ethernet interface and were corrected. Using the generic platform, an application was developed to allow the reading of Bi-Directional pass through a communication protocol from 4 isolated serial input channels, to an Ethernet channel using TCP protocol.
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    GateOS : a minimalist windowing environment and operating system for FPGAs : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Engineering in Computer Systems Engineering at Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand
    (Massey University, 2007) Buhler, Andreas
    In order to debug and tune stand-alone FPGA image processing configurations, it is necessary for a developer to also create the required debug tools and to implement them on the FPGA. This process takes both time and effort that could be better spent on improving the image processing algorithms. The Gate Array Terminal Operating System (GateOS) is proposed to relieve the developer of the need to construct many of these debugging tools. In GateOS we separate the image processing algorithms from the rest of the operating system. GateOS is presented to the developer as a Handel-C library, which can be customised at compile-time, to facilitate the creation of windows and widgets. Several types of widgets are described that can manipulate the parameters of image processing algorithms and enable the end-user to dynamically rearrange the position of a window on the VDU. An end user is able to interact with GateOS with both a keyboard and a mouse.