Articles & News on Embedded Control

Matrox Graphics to License Source Code of display software

  • January 18, 2012
  • News

Source code of M-Series drivers will be made available to approved OEM developers.

WinSystems celebrates its 30th anniversary

  • January 18, 2012
  • News

Started in 1982 by Jerry Winfield, WinSystems manufactures industry-standard PC/104, EPIC, EBX, SUMIT-ISM and STD Bus computer boards, I/O modules, and enclosures.

Major Automation & Control Trends in 2012

  • January 16, 2012
  • Feature

Automation.com, January 2012
By Bill Lydon, Editor
Here are my thoughts on major automation and control trends in 2012. These opinions are based on a wide range of inputs from users, suppliers and industry consultants, and from attending numerous industry forums, conferences and trade shows every year.

Highlights from PI NA General Assembly Meeting 2011

  • January 9, 2012
  • Feature

Automation.com, January 2012
By Bill Lydon, Editor
The 17th Annual PI North America General Assembly Meeting was held October 4-6, 2011 in Phoenix, AZ and included vendors and users who provided updates on PROFIBUS and PROFINET technologies. Topics included PROFINET survey, GE IP, Chrysler-Fiat, Wireless and PROFIenergy.

igus puts product details on EPLAN

  • December 19, 2011
  • News

igus provides device data and linking CAE and production configurations on EPLAN.

ADLINK Technology commits to COM initiative

  • December 8, 2011
  • News

This will allow ADLINK to offer modular solutions far below the $100 level, a price point requested for many years in the embedded market, but was not achievable with x86 based platforms.

Marathon Technologies to supply EverRun software to HardwarePT

  • December 6, 2011
  • News

EverRun is a fault tolerant, high availability and disaster recovery software suite that creates a highly resilient application environment for Windows products.

ISaGRAF makes Wind River RTOS SIL3

  • December 2, 2011
  • News

ISaGRAF will integrate its SIL 3 FlexiSafe solution to Wind River’s VxWorks RTOS Cert Platform.

IXXAT opens sales office in Italy

  • December 2, 2011
  • News

IXXAT opened a sales office in northern Italy to expand its activities in the embedded system solutions, data communication and safety areas.

Softing joins Fieldbus Foundation Development Services Program

  • November 29, 2011
  • News

The program helps automation vendors get started with FOUNDATION product development by making it faster and easier to bring fieldbus equipment to market.