mPlatform - A 4-module stack
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mPlatform is a project from Microsoft Research built under the guidance of Zhao Feng, Microsoft Research chief researcher. Defined as "reconfigurable architecture and effective mechanism for exchange of data, modular sensor nodes", mPlatform is essentially a collection of many different processors designed to enable real-time processing. By Zhao research project aims to provide modular network sensornet platform for applications. Construction of hardware from nothingness, will no longer be necessary as mPlatform will allow existing modules to be packaged together in sensors that can be created to meet the specific requirements of the application and research scenarios.
"This is all about tinkering," Zhao explained, quoting from the channel 10. "Instead of trying to write software to live with existing hardware limitations, the researchers had to be able to aggregate hardware software to meet their needs and analysis of the application of logic before fabricating and placement of these devices in scale… People can start using these platforms for building interesting applications quickly. We take some of the common things other than those applications, embedded application prototypes in the head, and let users focus more on thinking about sorting applications, which want to build. "
One of the important aspects which recommends mPlatform over alternative platforms for embedded system is the fact that one processor functions for each module. However, the surface of the sensor network provides a user interface that is shared by carried on hardware modules. The modules are built around the boards, which can easily be connected to one another scaling in order to meet the specific needs of the project.
"Some of mPlatform modules are general purpose processing boards, while others are special-purpose planes as radio boards for wireless communication, sensor for planes to monitor natural phenomena, and power panels for power supply to the stack of modules. Any advice, with except for the power board is a local processor. locally as a processor for each module effectively allows real-time event work, one of the main objectives of the design mPlatform. processor-per-unit approach also allows more adaptive aggregation of adequate processing power an application, "Microsoft revealed.
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