Cost-effective and flexible low-profile PCIexpress card for CAN, LIN and other bus systems
With the new CAN-IB100/PCIe IXXAT is treading new ways in terms of field bus interface cards. The passive CAN PCIexpress card is based on a modern and highly modular concept. Due to this, it is very flexible and versatile, and all this at a very low price. Besides the standard version, the interface card is also available as low-profile board.
With its new version of the CAN-CR220 repeater IXXAT expanded once again the isolation voltage of the device, which can now be used in areas with higher protection demands.
The CAN-CR220, in the variant 1.01.0067.44300, has an isolation voltage between CAN1, CAN2 and the power supply of 4.0 kV AC / 1 sec. (3.0 kV AC / 3 min.; 3.75 kV AC / 1 min.) and was tested according to DIN/EN 50178 (DIN VDE 0160: 1988-05 and DIN VDE 0160/A1: 1989-04).
Especially for the development of devices and systems for the maritime sector, IXXAT now offers an extension for its proven J1939 protocol software according to the NMEA 2000 standard. The extension enables the quick and cost-effective development of NMEA 2000 Level A&B Class 1 devices.
With its new FR-IB100/PCIe IXXAT offers an extremely cost effective and high-performance interface card for FlexRay analysis and control applications as well as for the analysis of the FlexRay start-up behavior (asynchronous analysis mode).
The card comes with an on-board 32 bit microcontroller system, two FlexRay channels (2 x 10 MBit) with Freescale MFR4310 protocol chip, and provides a time stamp resolution of 100 ns.
With its new CANio 500, IXXAT offers a flexible I/O gateway for the easy and quick connection of analog and digital input and output signals to CAN and CANopen systems – whether in experimental setups, component test stands or vehicles.
A key feature of the device are the inputs and outputs for digital and analog signals, which can be configured very flexible. The device has each four analog inputs and outputs with a 12 bit resolution. The analog inputs are available with different voltage ranges, as well as with differential input circuits or current inputs. The output voltage range can be individually programmed in the working range of -10 V to +10 V for each analog output.
IEEE 1588-2008 PTP Software from IXXAT for STM32 MCUs
The IEEE 1588-2008 protocol software from IXXAT, which is integrated in ap-plications worldwide, now is also available for the STM32Fx07 family from STMicroelectronics. These MCUs have an integrated IEEE 1588 hardware time stamping unit which allows the highly accurate synchronization of devices in a distributed network. On this base, an accuracy in the range of nanoseconds can be achieved. Typical applications are telecommunication, power management, measurement systems (e.g. LXI), and audio/video transmission.
The latest version 3.3 of IXXAT’s Virtual CAN Interface (VCI) now also supports 32 and 64 bit Windows 7 operating systems.
The VCI CAN driver supports all CAN interfaces offered by IXXAT and enables the development of customer-specific PC based applications as well as the operation of IXXAT’s CAN tools.
Customer specific applications can be programmed using the included .Net or C API. At this, the common application interface of the driver allows to easily switch between the interfaces without any adaptation or the customer application. Furthermore, the integration into LabView is directly supported by LabView VIs.
IXXAT Automation GmbH enables the rapid and cost-effective connection of your hardware to SERCOS III
Specially for the implementation of a SERCOS III interface on systems with limited space or with specific form factor requirements, IXXAT offers the Industrial Ethernet Module (IEM) as design-in solution. The design-in of the IEM is based on the cost-effective Cyclone III FPGA from Altera and offers for SERCOS III a communication interface as complete Generic IO Device.
The analysis and diagnostic tools from IXXAT have been complemented by the new CBT2 and CANobserver, enabling an even easier analysis and monitoring of CAN networks during development, manufacturing and service.
The new CBT2 enables the fast and yet detailed analysis of the signal quality in CAN networks. Due to the various trigger modes and the integrated oscilloscope, errors can easily be analyzed and thus causes of errors can be detected and fixed quickly.
acontis technologies GmbH introduces EtherCAT® Master protocol on the Freescale QorIQ™ multicore processing platform with Green Hills INTEGRITY® real-time operating system
WEINGARTEN, Germany – June 16, 2010 – acontis technologies GmbH, a leader in EtherCAT® Master protocol IP, has collaborated with Freescale Semiconductor, a leader in embedded processors for industrial applications, and Green Hills Software, Inc., the largest independent vendor of embedded software solutions, to create an embedded reference design for the EtherCAT Master protocol integrated with the Green Hills INTEGRITY® safe, secure real-time operating system on the Freescale QorIQ™ multicore processing platform. This solution, which allows customers to confirm EtherCAT Master function, reliability and performance, and more quickly complete their designs, will be first demonstrated during the Freescale Technology Forum in Orlando, June 21-24, 2010.