From scientific instrument to industrial machine Coping with architectural stress in embedded systems /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Doornbos, Richard (Editor), van Loo, Sjir (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2012.
• Series: SpringerBriefs in Electrical and Computer Engineering,
• Subjects: Physics.; Special purpose computers.; Computer system failures.; Mathematical models.; Spectroscopy.; Microscopy.; Applied mathematics.; Engineering mathematics.; Spectroscopy and Microscopy.; Appl.Mathematics/Computational Methods of Engineering.; Special Purpose and Application-Based Systems.; Mathematical Modeling and Industrial Mathematics.; System Performance and Evaluation.

Architectural stress is the inability of a system design to respond to new market demands. It is an important yet often concealed issue in high tech systems. In From scientific instrument to industrial machine, we look at the phenomenon of architectural stress in embedded systems in the context of a...

Table of Contents:

• Foreword
• Acknowledgements
• Part I Introduction
• 1. The Endeavor
• Part II Architecture
• 2. Systems Architecture
• 3. Feasibility prototyping
• 4. Software architecture
• Part III Automation and control functions
• 5. Applications in automated microscopy
• 6. Focusing control
• 7. Positioning control
• Part IV Conclusion
• 8. Final words
• Appendix. Condor Project Publications.