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Embedded Automation Portal: Products, News & Resources
Embedded Automation Products, News, Articles, Events & Resources
Welcome to Automation.com's portal for Embedded Automation where design engineers of products for industrial, process, and building automation industries can find the latest information to create innovative products. Technologies and products covered on this portal include new components, connectors, power components, communications stacks, embedded software, and other real-time components. Subscribe to our e-Newsletter or get the latest information on Embedded Automation sent to your desktop as soon as they are published on this page.
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Green up: MCUs power down
- 03/19/10 Embedded Computing Design, March 2010 By Don Dingee MCUs are clearly powering down as technology gets better, and the result will be more efficient embedded devices. |
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Flexibility, Integration Key For FPGAs in Automation
- 03/19/10 Automation World, March 2010 By Gary Mintchell Field-programmable gate array (FPGA) chips have been around since 1984, but this venerable technology continues to find a dedicated user community in industrial automation. |
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The Path to Protection
- 03/19/10 Control Engineering Asia, March 2010 By Paul Haake, Chloride North America Engineers are employing more electronic equipment, much of it adopted from non-industrial applications, and almost all of it more sensitive to electrical disturbances than the equipment being replaced. These are then mixed with the inherently poor power environment of an industrial facility and aging power generation and distribution facilities. |
White Papers
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Energy management considerations with today’s drive systems
- 03/16/10 By Michael Perlman, Siemens It is important for today’s machine builders and automation engineers alike to remember that an energy-efficient system can actually translate into higher productivity. |
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Why Can’t We Be Friends?
By Stanley Liu, Moxa This white paper explores how selecting the correct solution allows existing IT departments to easily deploy and monitor the full range of available industrial automation devices for server room monitoring, without complicated integration obstacles or additional training requirements. |
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Sample Code for Embedded Applications
By Dr. CF Lin, Moxa Software developers should always be on the lookout for ways to ensure that products are developed quickly, but at the same time are also reliable and cost-effective. A simple yet very effective way of doing this is to rely on sample code when getting started with a project. |
Application Stories
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Raima adds Softing OPC UA software to its RDM embedded database
- 03/03/10 Softing integrated its OPC Unified Architecture (UA) software into an OPC UA based application that communicates directly with Raima Database Manager. |
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Embedded PCs Keep Drilling Machines on Budget
- 10/10/09 Control Engineering, October 2009 Kays Engineering uses Beckhoff embedded PCs, Ethernet controllers, TwinCAT software and EtherCAT servo drives to control its DeHoff gun drilling machines. |
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Software Virtualization Environment Enhances Control
- 10/10/09 Control Engineering, October 2009 By Kim Hartman, TenAsys Cleveland Motion Controls’ Burny XL CNC uses a virtual machine architecture, implemented by TenAsys software, to simultaneously run Microsoft Windows XP Embedded and the TenAsys INtime real-time operating system |
Resources & Literature
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Siemon adds online educational resource for cabling
- 03/16/10
Website helpS IT network and data center professionals understand the benefits of shielded twisted-pair copper cabling. |
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Poll Question - How many different networks do you have in your facility?
How many different communication networks do you have implemented in factories and/or plants? The list of available networks includes, but is not limited to: Foundation Fieldbus, ControlNet, PROFIBUS, Interbus, AS-Interface, CanOpen, CC-Link, PROFINET, HART, Ethernet, EtherCAT, Ethernet Powerlink, SERCOS, Modbus, LonWorks and DeviceNet. |
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Free NI Measurement and Automation Catalog
The National Instruments catalog is the leading virtual instrumentation resource for engineers and scientists seeking the most productive customer-defined software and hardware tools. |
Training & Seminars
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U.S. Department of Labor uses PMMI standards for Mechatronics
- 09/15/09
PMMI's skill standards for mechatronics have been included in the DOL's Competency Model Clearinghouse, used to set education and training criteria. |
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Windows Embedded CE online training
- 08/19/09
Free, self-paced technical training on Windows Embedded CE 6.0 R2 is available online on Microsoft’s Website |
Featured Products
Product Announcements
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Avalue introduces ESM-GM45 Computer-on-Module
- 03/17/10
ESM-GM45 Computer-on-Module has an Intel Core 2 Duo or Celeron M CPU, and supports Windows 7, Windows XP, Windows XPe, Windows CE as well as Linux. |
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GE speeds up A10200 single board computer
- 03/16/10
The A10200 is available with the Intel Xeon processor 5600, with up to six cores and 12 Mbytes of L3 cache for each CPU, enabling a processing performance improvement of up to 50%. |
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Acrosser announces AR-B8170Votrex86DX board
- 03/15/10
ISA half-size embedded computer board is based on DM&P Votrex86DX chipsets, onboard 800MHz processor, on board 256MB DDRII-333MHz memory and 64MB video memory. |
Company & Organization News
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ISA selects Automation.com as advertising sales partner
In addition to daily and weekly digital and online content, ISA will publish 6 print issues of InTech magazine in 2010. ISA selected Automation.com as the advertising sales representative for InTech magazine’s print, digital, and online editions. |
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ARC says prices are coming down on automation products
- 03/07/10 One element contributing to the price erosion is that controllers are rapidly becoming an automation commodity in some sectors. |
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Maine gives Kepware $500,000
- 03/04/10 The Maine Technology Institute gave Kepware $500,000 for its embedded product development efforts. |
Project News
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Apriso supplies FlexNet to EDS
- 11/23/08 EDS launches integrated manufacturing software solution using Apriso’s FlexNet platform. |
Events
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