The terminal display control computer unit of some system had a problem that its single CPU unit cannot access the multi-channel UART board (MCUB) directly through the compact PCI bus. To settle it
the paper presents a monitoring software solution
which takes the MCUB as a transparent bridge
exchanges bidirectional data between the CPU unit and the external devices via network packets. By fully applying the characters of the real-time embedded operating system VxWorks
e.g. micro kernel
multi-task
scalable components and message queue
the software tackles such difficulty as listening eight external devices simultaneously
real time and mass data exchange
realizes a mini-sized
highly real-time and well processed monitoring system. Experiment shows that the monitoring software satisfies the requirements of system development.