Network Protocol Based Embedded Product Development & Automation of Network Switch Simulator

Abstract

This Project work is divided in to two phase, in phase one project work is carried out at Masibus Instrumentation & Automation Pvt. Ltd., Gandhinagar. This company is in Design, Development & manufacturing of a large range of Process controller, one of these range is LC5296, it is a perfect process controller Accurate, reliable control of various process applications is provided by Masibus LC5296, this report presents the work carried out at Masibus for designing & development of an advanced temperature controller using latest controller & compact version which is the demanded by customers, so redesigning of this product is scheduled. As the technology is getting updated with time, the redesigning phase comes as a part of Re-development of existing product. The design present in this thesis uses controller of Renesas RF5100FC with some extra features & more compact version than earlier product was decided, by the end of the November Product was almost ready to deliver and supposed undergo some testing environment, so now it was a time to do some research on betterment of product which lead us to use some wireless network protocol in device instead of wired Modbus, also started working on it. In second phase, work is carried out at Broadcom India Research Pvt. Ltd., Bangalore. At Broadcom my project work is started initially on configuration of one Proprietary network simulator tool of Broadcom for different chipset & for different environment, which is gradually converted in to automation of this entire configuration for Network simulator. The objective was to automate the process of network switch simulator initialization & invocation using script. Using this interactive script user will have the freedom to choose the different configuration options. SDK version will also be changed. Chip & SDK compatibility will also be checked. Based on user’s input (with or without stacking option, number of chip, SDK & chip model, Debugging options ) network switch simulator windows has to be invoked, for debugging purpose GNU debugger (GDB) was used.