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News Release from: Kuka Controls
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 12 January 2006
Real-time Ethernet gains new options
Kuka Controls will focus on real-time Ethernet and standardisation of interfaces at Embedded World.
Kuka Controls is focusing on real-time Ethernet and standardisation of interfaces for its Embedded World presentation In addition to connecting EtherCAT, ProfiNet and PowerLink, Kuka is now also offering a software-based IEEE1588 solution for its real-time technology
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 7 Feb 2005 at 8.00am (UK)
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Software for an Embedded World
Kuka Controls will demonstrate VxWin and CeWin on Booth 121 in Hall 11 at Embedded World in Nuremburg together with its distributor Acontis.
Software brings Windows XP and VxWorks together
VxWin 2.2 is the latest release of the Windows XP extension to VxWorks from Kuka Controls.
An EtherCAT master stack from Acontis Technologies, a Profinet stack from Softing and PowerLink from Bernecker and Rainer are all now available for Kuka's real-time extension software CeWin and VxWin.
Kuka Controls will demonstrate these new real-time Ethernet technologies to best effect at the trade fair booth by using standard industry platforms from developers such as Beckhoff, B and R and Softing, and I/Os controlled and visualised from the corresponding field buses.
Kuka Controls will also present its new IEEE1588 software module which is compatible with both Wind River VxWorks for x86 and VxWin.
Further reading
Free evaluation for embedded Windows extension
An evaluation copy of the latest release of the CeWin real-time extension platform is available to qualified embedded systems developers from the Kuka Controls website.
Upgraded cohabitation for XP Embedded and VxWorks
VxWin is a real-time extension that allows Wind River VxWorks and Windows XP to reside concurrently on a single processor.
VxWorks applications requiring clock synchronisation can seamlessly synchronise with other IEEE1588 devices.
The software module is fully compliant with the IEEE1588 standard for precision clock synchronisation of networked measurement and control systems.
When installed in VxWin or VxWorks applications, it can determine the clock classification of other IEEE1588 devices on the network, which may have varying precision, resolution and stability; and can adjust them to maintain precise clock synchronisation.
Other IEEE1588 devices can be connected using standard Ethernet hardware further reducing the system cost.
In providing full IEEE1588 compliance, the IEEE1588 software module not only eliminates the need for the dedicated hardware, it also assures interoperability with other IEEE1588 devices.
Kuka Controls will demonstrate this function of the software module with the help of a PC and five PC104 cards - a master and four slaves that are synchronised using the IEEE1588 module.
Visualisation takes place via the Kuka.Sim program, which represents a simulation of the application or rather shows each card on the screen as a possible robot.
An on-site robot installation will show the functionality of Kuka Controls' leading real-time extension technology: CeWin and VxWin enable the coexistence of two operating systems on a single computer, in part, by dividing the PC memory so that the RTOS (either VxWorks or Windows CE) and Windows XP each execute in separate, protected memory areas.
No modifications are made to either operating system allowing developers to take advantage of previous experience and existing code while maintaining maximum flexibility.
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