microCommander -
Component-based software package that integrates HMI and the Internet with the creation and control of automation software.

Human Machine Interfaces (HMI) for microcontrollers
Create GUIs (Graphical User Interfaces) for your control & automation systems with Visual Controls. Visual Controls are configurable, graphical widgets such as knobs, switches, dials, LEDs, and more. Arrange them to create virtual instrumentation panels, which, via microCommander's integrated Internet-connectivity, directly control and monitor your automated system.

Internet-Connectivity for automated systems
microCommander puts your automation systems online by integrating Internet-connectivity directly into the software suite. This means that microCommander lets you develop, monitor, and control your system over the Internet without writing any source code.

Component-based automation & control programming
Build automation & control applications by combining ready-made Components. These pre-built Components automatically interface with hardware, perform and schedule tasks, execute logic, react to events and, when put together appropriately, drive your embedded system. Components solve the common tasks of embedded programming and let you, the developer, focus on what the embedded system is going to - not how it is going to do it.

mVisual is the program you use to build and control your embedded application. It is the "front-end" of the microCommander embedded control suite. It runs on your PC and provides you with a visually oriented interface that lets you add Components and Visual Controls quickly and easily. As you drag-and-drop Components, mVisual communicates with mTarget, instructing it to create those Components and add them to your application.

Once you have built an application, you can then connect to it and control and monitor it in mVisual using Visual Controls. In this way, mVisual becomes the user interface for your embedded application. However, before it can do any of this it must first connect to the Target.

mServer is a communication gateway for the microCommander embedded control suite. mServer accepts TCP/IP connections from mVisual and translates them into serial messages for the microcontroller. This allows microCommander to work over the Internet or locally with microcontrollers that are not TCP/IP enabled.

The kernel that manages the Components in your application and handles the connection to mServer. The "backbone" of the microCommander embedded control suite, mTarget runs on the microcontroller along with your embedded application. It receives your instructions from mVisual on how to build and control your application. mTarget is always running as long as power is supplied to your microcontroller.

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