In recent years, the requirement for embedded controllers has been steadily on the increase due to the development of computers, communication and consumptive products. In order to overcome the pressure of short life-time and rapid changing rate of products, however, related industries have been engaged in improving their design to shorten the time to market and to lower the cost. Therefore, a new concept, rapid controller prototyping, has been proposed to solve the problem with the development of controllers. However, most of the proposals are expensive and restricted in the choice of software and hardware, and aren¡¦t adequate for research. To solve the problems above, this paper has chosen MATLAB/Simulink, Real-Time Workshop, a software widely used by the academic community, as tools to study rapid controller prototyping. Here, we also focus on the establishment of the developing platform. Then we design, simulate and test the controller on the platform established. Finally, we apply the controller to the physical plant. By doing so, this paper expects to solve current problems in the development of controllers.

In recent years, the requirement for embedded controllers has been steadily on the increase due to the development of computers, communication ,WWW and consumers¡¦ products. Consequently, integration and application of the embedded system and the World-Wide Web become more and more important. The Web-based embedded system developed in this paper tends build a service of micro web server. By this service, users can not only receive the information from the system via the browser, but also design particular processes for themselves. Besides, the system developer can use the most popular tools to edit the page for the Web-based embedded system. This Web service technology offers an operational interface, which is user-friendly, and cost effective with the capability of cross-platform and TCP/IP transmission. The presented achievement is applied to temperature control system for performance evaluation of remote control.