Flexible reconfiguration patterns for measurement architecture

Reconfigurable measurement technology is absorbing more and more research focus for its requirements in modern producing enterprises for low-cost products and short time to market. In this paper, a flexible reconfigurable measurement pattern is proposed, which is built on data bus model and a set of protocols. In this way, the measurement task is separated into a group of measurement components, which are connected together by data bus. The platform configures the measurement task by component language and carries out management of the measurement process by information exchange protocols and data exchange protocols. Based on the data bus, the measurement data can propagate among the configured data flow ways asynchronously, in the process; users can plug and unplug any components to the measurement platform. Finally, the proposed reconfigurable measurement example is present. The application cases shows that the proposed way can accelerate the collaboration of production for different enterprise and improve the producing efficiency.