Embedded Systems Design, 2nd Edition

410 Embedded systems design

With the PC-based testing completed, the system could be

installed and tested in the car itself. This was initially done in the

garage while stationary and then with a passenger using the

system while the car was driven. Once all this was completed, the

system and car were taken to a race track and the system used in

anger during the day’s testing. This final testing revealed several

problems with the system.

Problems

Saving to hard disk

The logged data is saved to disk so that it can be read back

at a later date. The data is sent to disk every time a sample set is

received. This is typically completed before the next sample ...