
Software Development
FLEX System Software
FLEX Alphanumeric Chip MC68175 Interface
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3.1 FLEX SYSTEM SOFTWARE
FLEX System Software (FSS) from Motorola is a family of interoperable software
components used for building products with paging/messaging capabilities. FLEX
One-Way Stack, one of the software components, is specifically designed to support the
integration of the FLEX Alphanumeric Chip Integrated Circuit (IC) with many
off-the-shelf microprocessors.
3.1.1 FLEX One-Way Stack Overview
The product engineer can regard FLEX One-Way Stack as the FLEX Alphanumeric Chip
device driver. As shown in
Figure 3-1
, FLEX One-Way Stack runs on the product’s host
processor and communicates with FLEX Alphanumeric Chip IC. It fully interprets FLEX
code-words (packets of information) received from the FLEX IC and returns the original
paging message to the host software so the message can be displayed to the user.
Figure 3-1
FLEX One-Way Stack Software Interfaces
A FLEX Software Development Kit (SDK) is available for downloading from Motorola’s
website at
http://www.motorola.com/flexstack.
The FLEX One-Way Stack
software has been proven to work on various microprocessors, including the MC68328
(Dragonball). Motorola customers can download FLEX One-Way Stack software from
the web and apply the recommended porting procedures described in this application
report to make the software work on the MC68328 Dragonball platform.
Application (host) Software
Public API
Interrupt Service Routine
Serial Peripheral Interface
FLEX Alphanumeric Chip
FLEX Alphanumeric Chip
Data Packets
Formatted
(or Unformatted)
Message
FLEX One-Way Stack Software
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