System and Utility

System Information

The System Information Component shows you the status of your microcontroller. A part of every microCommander application, you can use the System Information Component to gauge the performance of your application.

View CPU usage (both current and maximum), memory footprint, communications between your PC and microcontroller. Synchronize your microcontroller's clock with your PC with the click of a button and check the statistics on the Components you have used in your application.

You can also use the System Information Component to store your embedded applications to Flash (EEPROM). Providing an interface that is exactly like saving or opening a file on your PC, the System Information Component takes care of the messy Flash management programming so you don't have to! You can even set your applications to load automatically when your microcontroller is reset or powered on.

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Pulse Table

The Pulse Table Component is a utility Component that stores a table of bit strings (or pulses). The Pulse Table provides an easy means of loading the pulse data from file and storing it for your embedded application to use. Each Pulse Table can contain several bit-sequences useful for generating pulsing digital and quasi-analog outputs. The microCommander embedded control suite provides a number of ready-made pulse tables that you can use in your application. Plus, you can build your own custom tables using any text-editor.

To get the most use of our Pulse Table Components, you will need to source them to one or more Pulse Train Components. microCommander's fill-in-the-blank interface makes this trivial to do: simply select from a list which Pulse Table you want use a source to your Pulse Train.

Show your Pulse Table on your Visual Control Panel using:

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Lookup Table

Like the Pulse Table Component, the Lookup Table Component lets you load and store a table of values. Instead of bit-sequences, though, the Lookup Table contains values used for linear interpolation. Specify an arbitrarily number of domain-range pairs, (X, Y), to approximate a function f(X) = Y. Again, like the Pulse Table, the microCommander embedded control suite provides a library of common lookup tables used to approximate sensor response curves (e.g. Fenwall 10K Thermistor). Also, you can build your own lookup tables using any text-editor or use the Lookup Table's built-in Quick Linear feature which will generate a 2-entry table based on a linear function you specify.

Use the Lookup Table as the source to a Converter Component, which will perform the actual linear interpolation for you.

Show your Lookup Table on your Visual Control Panel using:

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