Penware Panther: An embedded computer system for real-time applications

Embedded computer systems target on different tasks and serve in various environments. This thesis relates to the design of Panther, an embedded computer system for real-time applications. Panther, a product of Mobinetix System Company, is a transaction and signature capture terminal which is aimed at a paperless environment. This product possesses a variety of functions from electronically capturing signature for receipts, contracts or identification, to touch-screen communication for PIN entry, advertising and customer survey. The emphasis of the thesis is on design of the firmware module of Panther. Instead of using the traditional flow chart and state machine approaches, an Object Orientation (OO) modeling approach is taken, which improves problem domain abstraction as well as system's stability in the presence of changes. The Unified Modeling Language (UML) is used throughout the design to express the constructs and relationships among them. This work contributes, mostly to the Panther firmware architecture design, firmware implementation of communication processor, interpreter, and command applications.

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Science (MS)

Level thesis:degree_level

Thesis

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Grantor dc:publisher

University of Nevada, Las Vegas

Year

1999

Author dc:creator

• Huang, Chenyong

Contributors dc:contributor

• Shahram Latifi

Statement dc:rights

• IN COPYRIGHT. For more information about this rights statement, please visit http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/

Language dc:language

English

Identifier

https://oasis.library.unlv.edu/rtds/1001

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:oasis.library.unlv.edu:rtds-2000