整合維護系統（IMM）必須要能即時取得生產設備的資訊，才能根據設備端所取得的資訊來進行維修與保養的工作，因此「設備研究」是近年來被高度重視的研究領域。嵌入式系統與設備研究中的「機台資料擷取」（Data Collection）具有高度的技術相依性。GED便是針對機台資料擷取的需求所發展的嵌入式裝置，要實現將GED嵌入至設備內部的願景，必須完整的研究嵌入式系統平臺的相關技術。完整的的嵌入式系統平臺包含軟體與硬體，本研究採用Platform-Based Design的觀念，並以Embedded Linux與PowerPC為核心技術，實作了一個整合式的軟硬體平臺（GED Platform），GED Platform為完整的嵌入式系統架構，並具備分散式系統的特性。GED Platform的實作最後遞交給設計者的是抽象的”Platform API”，以使「快速開發嵌入式應用程式」的願景得以實現。此外，關鍵的實作說明與技術整理是Platform-Based Design理論中最重要的部份，此文件能幫助設計者快速了解嵌入式平臺的內部實作，並能快速使用該平臺來開發應用程式。本研究經由深入研究Embedded Linux技術，並從平臺實作經驗了解到，當設計者需要加入一個元件至GED Platform時，並不需要從頭實作整個平臺，只需「重用」（Reuse）原有平臺即可，因此能略過許多重覆的實作步驟；本研究因而歸納出一個可供未來設計者持續發展本平臺的設計流程。

　The main issue of the Integrated Manufacturing Maintenance is the acquisition of the information of production equipments. The maintenance and repair functionalities are achieved due to the availability of equipment engineering data. Therefore, the domain of data collection in equipment researching has been put much emphasis in the recent years. Data collection technology in equipment researching is highly dependent on embedded system technologies from the perspective of system level design. GED (Generic Embedded Device) had been developed to meet the data collection applications. To realize the vision of embedding GED in the equipment, researchers must take care of the embedded system platform technologies. This paper elects platform-based design methodology as the major system-level design methodology. Also, embedded Linux and PowerPC platform are elected to be the core software and hardware platform technologies. In this research, an integrated HW/SW platform called GED Platform is then developed. The architectural design of GED Platform adopts embedded system and distributed system technologies. GED Platform will finally be delivered to system designers in the form of abstract Platform API that achieves the vision of rapid development of embedded software. The other part of this paper is a user guide to core architectural design and implementation. The guide is of great importance for platform-based design. It helps designers to quickly understand the internal architecture and implementation of the platform. As the purpose, the vision of rapid development of embedded software is then realizable. The work of the platform development in this research results in a software design flow. The design flow makes GED Platform reusable, therefore future designers could derive the original GED Platform design and make their own components into GED Platform without the effort of developing the system from scratch.

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