Prof. Dr.-Ing. Konrad Etschberger, founder of IXXAT Automation GmbH and co-partner of IXXAT Holding GmbH will end his operational activities as the Managing Director of IXXAT Automation GmbH on March 31, 2010 and will take up the position of Chairman of the Advisory Board of IXXAT Holding.

Together with the long-standing Managing Director and co-partner of IXXAT Holding, Dipl.-Ing. Christian Schlegel, Dipl.-Ing. Werner Sauter will manage the company as the Business Manager. Werner Sauter has worked for IXXAT since September 1, 2009 and is responsible for Sales, Marketing, Personnel and Business Management since January 1, 2010.

As the Director Retail Systems Market at Bizerba GmbH & Co KG, Werner Sauter was responsible for worldwide sales and product marketing of the Retail Systems division. Before that he managed the basic systems product division at Bizerba and in this position was responsible for hardware and software development as well as electronic production for components and systems.

Add a CAN interface using your existing USB port. Now, you can embed IXXAT’s popular USB-to-CAN Compact in your own housing!

IXXAT announces the availability of its highly regarded USB-to-CAN interface as a board for mounting directly in your own chassis or housing.

The USB-to-CAN compact is delivered as a small circuit board with an on-board USB connector and a sub-D9 CAN connector. The board has a convenient mounting hole and is only 37.5 mm wide x 61.5 mm long.

The USB-to-CAN Compact board is delivered with IXXAT’s VCI driver and manual, but without the housing and USB cable.

Click here for more information about the USB-to-CAN compact or call USA 603-471-0800 x101 (for other countries +49-751-56146-0)

Conformance of the Industrial Ethernet Module (IEM) as part of the POWERLINK Starterkit now approved.

As one of the first devices, the IXXAT POWERLINK Starterkit Controlled Node (CN)
receives the official certificate of the EPSG POWERLINK Conformance Test. The Starterkit consists of an IXXAT Industrial Ethernet Module, a carrier board, a CPU module as well as a demo application. The IEM, as base hardware for different real-time Ethernet protocols, is based on the IXXAT POWERLINK stack, in the protocol variant for POWERLINK, and comes with an integrated Ethernet hub for the 2-port network connection.

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IXXAT is distributor for the EtherNet/IP products from Pyramid Solutions

IXXAT, a well known provider of products and services for the industrial communication, now distributes the EtherNet/IP protocol software and tools from Pyramid Solutions, which are conforming to the ODVA specifications, worldwide.At this, IXXAT uses the EtherNet/IP software from Pyramid already successfully on its Industrial Ethernet Module.

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Besides our comprehensive company webpage in German and English language, we created a new internet platform for international customers which was launched in mid-June.

The new, multilingual technology pages provide an overview of the IXXAT product range in English, German, Spanish, Italian, French, Swedish and Japanese language.

This enables visitors to get a brief description of the desired product in their mother language, with the possibility to switch to a detailed product description in English language.

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Cooperation of IXXAT and Altera at FPGA based solutions for Industrial Ethernet Protocols

Due to the benefits of high performance and low cost, the use of Ethernet-based communication protocols, like PROFINET, Ethernet/IP, EtherCAT, Powerlink or SERCOS III, is growing rapidly in the industrial market. However, despite the fact that they are all Ethernet based, many of the protocols in use today are incompatible, leaving the developer with the problem of how to cost effectively support multiple standards.

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