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Programming scilab in ARM linux

Published: 31 August 2008 Publication History

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Scilab is a free and open source alternative to commercial scientific software packages for numerical computations. It provides an open programming environment along with a large number of powerful primitives. To realize the full potential of Scilab in embedded systems, this paper presents programming techniques essential for using Scilab in the ARM Linux environment. The Scilab package that usually runs on general-purpose computers is ported to the embedded Linux platform with an ARM9 processor. The programming of embedded software and hardware drivers using the ported Scilab package is addressed. Examples are given for illustrating the programming techniques. The cost of the embedded platform developed in this work is very low thanks to the free nature of the software packages used. The flexibility of embedded software built on this platform can be maximized since the source code is open.

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  • (2008)A Low-Cost Embedded Controller for Complex Control SystemsProceedings of the 2008 IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Embedded and Ubiquitous Computing - Volume 0110.1109/EUC.2008.40(23-29)Online publication date: 17-Dec-2008

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cover image ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes
ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes  Volume 33, Issue 5
September 2008
68 pages
ISSN:0163-5948
DOI:10.1145/1402521
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Association for Computing Machinery

New York, NY, United States

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Published: 31 August 2008
Published in SIGSOFT Volume 33, Issue 5

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  1. ARM
  2. embedded systems
  3. linux
  4. open source software
  5. programming
  6. scilab

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  • (2008)A Low-Cost Embedded Controller for Complex Control SystemsProceedings of the 2008 IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Embedded and Ubiquitous Computing - Volume 0110.1109/EUC.2008.40(23-29)Online publication date: 17-Dec-2008

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