Claims
- 1. A method of designing a beverage dispenser or re-configuring an existing beverage dispenser, comprising:providing beverage dispenser components, comprising at least: a user interface, a dispensing valve, and a valve interface for regulating the delivery of a beverage from the dispensing valve; providing an electronic control system, comprising: a microcontroller for monitoring the user interface and for activating the valve interface responsive to user input, thereby regulating the delivery of a beverage from the dispensing valve, and a program memory including supervisory control firmware, dispenser tasks firmware, and low level drivers firmware for controlling the microcontroller; adding a beverage dispenser component; modifying the low level drivers firmware to interface the microcontroller with the added beverage dispenser component; adding a dispenser tasks firmware state machine; and modifying the supervisory control firmware to call the added dispenser tasks firmware state machine.
- 2. A method of designing a beverage dispenser or re-configuring an existing beverage dispenser, comprising:providing beverage dispenser components, comprising at least: a user interface, a dispensing valve, and a valve interface for regulating the delivery of a beverage from the dispensing valve; providing an electronic control system, comprising: a microcontroller for monitoring the user interface and for activating the valve interface responsive to user input, thereby regulating the delivery of a beverage from the dispensing valve, and a program memory including dispenser tasks firmware for controlling the microcontroller; inputting ratio control parameters associated with a beverage dispense into the program memory; and modifying a beverage dispense state machine of the dispenser tasks firmware utilizing the inputted ratio control parameters.
CROSS REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS
This application is a divisional application of application Ser. No. 09/575,301 which was filed on May 19, 2000 U.S. Pat. No. 6,421,583, which claims the benefit of Provisional application Ser. No. 60/135,076, filed May 20, 1999.
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Provisional Applications (1)
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