http://www.ixxat.com/blog-us Just another WordPress weblog Tue, 23 Sep 2008 07:22:42 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en IXXAT is pleased to announce the availability of a new tool that enables the user to inspect respectively convert CANopen and POWERLINK device description files conforming to the CiA 306 and CiA 311, as well as the upcoming EPL V2.0 XML specifications. In 2007 CAN in Automation (CiA), the international users’ ... http://www.ixxat.com/blog-us/new-products/free-device-description-explorer/ Conforms to the latest Powerlink specification DS 1.0.0 The current version 1.04.05 of the Powerlink stack from IXXAT Automation GmbH provides the following features: Node monitoring on Controlled Nodes (CNs) via object 0x1016 Support of all priority levels on Managing Nodes (MNs) for the allocation of the asynchronous communication channel Support of all ... http://www.ixxat.com/blog-us/updates/new-version-of-ixxats-powerlink-stack-available/ With IXXAT's universal installation tester "CANcheck", error diagnosis for CAN and CANopen systems becomes now even more easy. Besides approved functions for physical wiring, cable, termination and line length tests as well as the operational tests including signal level, busload and display of message and error frames, CANcheck now offers additional ... http://www.ixxat.com/blog-us/updates/easy-error-diagnosis-for-can-and-canopen-systems/ With the new version 1.6 of the CANopen ConfigurationStudio, an extended version of the universal CANopen network configuration tool from IXXAT becomes available. The CANopen ConfigurationStudio 1.6 simplifies the configuration of PDO messages within the "Visual Object Linker" significantly. PDO configuration is performed by simple drag & drop operations, so even ... http://www.ixxat.com/blog-us/updates/new-configuration-tool-for-canopen/ 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 ... http://www.ixxat.com/blog-us/general-topics/international-webpage/ Extension of the supported target platforms The CANopen protocol software from IXXAT, which has been available for many years and has proven itself in numerous applications, is now also available for the following target systems: Linux Kernel 2.6 with SocketCAN driver and GNU C development environment for Freescale MPC 5200B with internal ... http://www.ixxat.com/blog-us/updates/canopen-protocol-software-v421/ By using IXXAT's Powerlink FPGA IP Core, the Powerlink Managing Node (MN) functionality can be implemented rapidly and cost effective into any kind of host system. The major advantages of the FPGA based implementation are the flexibility, the vendor independency, the reduced development time and due to this the low development ... http://www.ixxat.com/blog-us/new-products/powerlink-mn-functionality-as-fpga-ip/ IXXAT will present it's new universal Embedded Platform on the Embedded World fair in Nuremberg. This platform is intended for customers who like to start the development of specific application software for the automotive area fast, but do not have the target hardware available. The hardware supports a temperature range between ... http://www.ixxat.com/blog-us/new-products/embedded-platform-for-the-automotive-area/ IXXAT is pleased to announce the availability of version 3.1 of its versatile CANopen Device Manager. CANopen Device Manager is a universal, plug-in based CANopen tool targeted to support engineers during the device development and testing process. Due to its unique extensibility by custom plug-ins or Python script files it is ... http://www.ixxat.com/blog-us/updates/canopen-device-manager-version-31-now-available/ Besides PCI and ISA, IXXAT now also supports the well-priced single channel USB-to-CAN compact and the dual channel USB-to-CAN II interface with a layer-2 Linux driver free of charge. This enables the development and the usage of customer specific analysis, configuration and test applications on notebooks and other mobile systems. Due ... http://www.ixxat.com/blog-us/new-products/can-interfaces-for-usb-with-linux-driver/