SYS TEC electronic (http://www.systec-electronic.com) and B&R Industrie Elektronik (http://www.br-automation.com) have released version 1.8.1 of the openPOWERLINK Protocol Stack. The release includes the new POWERLINK IP Core for Altera and Xilinx FPGAs. It comes with a ready-to-use building block for an easy integration into own designs of slave devices (e.g. digital and analog I/O's or drives). Furthermore it equips your devices with a fast POWERLINK interface. An integrated hardware accelerated MAC with auto response feature meets hard realtime requirements. Additional digital control lines in form of General Purpose Input/Output (GPIO) are available.
openPOWERLINK can also be used as a pure software solution on LINUX, Windows or VxWorks.Demoprojects for serveral evaluation boards with altera and Xilinx FPGA devices are included.... read more
SYS TEC electronic (http://www.systec-electronic.com) has released version 1.6 of the openPOWERLINK Protocol Stack.
This release contains a new demo project for the Development Board DBC3C40 (Mercury Board) from EBV. The demo was implemented on a bare-metal Nios II Soft-CPU running on an Altera Cyclone III FPGA. The implementation achieves a Poll-Response latency of 1 µs and cycle time as low as 400 µs. Furthermore, with this release we integrated the POWERLINK Configuration Manager module previously contributed by Kalycito. It allows for automatic downloading of device configuration data to attached nodes at start-up of a POWERLINK network. The required device configuration files can be created with the graphical user interface openCONFIGURATOR (http://sourceforge.net/projects/openconf/) also developed by Kalycito.... read more
SYS TEC electronic (http://www.systec-electronic.com) has released version 1.5.3 of the openPOWERLINK Protocol Stack.
Based on this version, in June 2009 the openPOWERLINK Development Kit has been certified by the EPSG (http://openpowerlink.sourceforge.net/POWERLINK_Certificate.PDF).
The major changes of the protocol stack are
- bug fixes for compliance to DS301 V1.1.0
- incorporation and improvement of Windows port from Kalycito, which makes openPOWERLINK runnable on any Windows PC with WinPcap
- new support for Davicom DM9003 Ethernet controller connected to Atmel AT91RM9200 under Linux 2.6.22
- several fixes of bugs from bug tracker.... read more
SYS TEC electronic (http://www.systec-electronic.com) released version 1.4 of the openPOWERLINK Protocol Stack. There is also a new version of the LiveCD which can be downloaded from http://www.systec-electronic.com/openpowerlink_livecd .
The major changes of the protocol stack are
- it now supports newer Linux kernel revisions (version 2.6.28.8 was tested)
- incorporation of some patches that were made to staging/epl in the Linux kernel
- bug fixes in the RTL8139 driver (additionally, it now supports RTL8139C+ chips)
- several bug fixes in sub-modules (SDO and ErrorHandler)
- clean-ups in demo projects
- support for NMT requests was added (via object 0x1F9F and NMT request frames)... read more
SYS TEC electronic (http://www.systec-electronic.com) released version 1.3.0 of the openPOWERLINK Protocol Stack. This release is compliant to the EPSG DS 301 V1.1.0 specification, which has been proved on several Plugfests.
Further major news is the new GPL-Addon, which includes a new Ethernet driver for the Hilscher netX processor. The integrated 2-port Hub is used by this Ethernet driver. Another new module which is integrated in the main package controls the status and error LED indicators according to the POWERLINK specification. Please see the included revision history for further information.
SYS TEC electronic GmbH presents its openPOWERLINK LiveCD.
The openPOWERLINK LiveCD is an Ethernet POWERLINK Managing Node on CD. It is based upon our openPOWERLINK Protocol Stack.
Simply connect one or more Controlled Nodes to a PC with a Realtek RTL8139-based network card and boot from the CD.
Follow the steps shown on the screen and you will have your own POWERLINK network up and running in 5 minutes.
This LiveCD needs no installation. It provides the full openPOWERLINK Stack without altering your harddisk.
You can even modify the openPOWERLINK source code due to its integrated development environment.
But remember that your changes will get lost if you do not safe them on an USB stick or harddisk.... read more
SYS TEC electronic (http://www.systec-electronic.com) released version 1.2.0 of the openPOWERLINK Protocol Stack. This release supports the RTL8139C network chip and includes a new demo application for Qt.
Additionally some bugs were fixed. Please see the included revision history for further information.
We would like to know if you prefer to have the sources a CVS or Subversion repository. What is your favorite version control software? Or is the plain source ZIP sufficient?
Please take part in the discussion in the forum or mailing list.
SYS TEC electronic (http://www.systec-electronic.com) attended the Plugfest on June 18 and 19 2008 at EPSG technology center in Berlin. We tested the interaction of an openPOWERLINK Managing Node on an Athlon 1 GHz with RTL8139D network chip with POWERLINK components of other vendors. Additionally, an openPOWERLINK Controlled Node based on Freescale ColdFire MCF5484 was combined with Managing Nodes of other vendors.
The overall test result was quite good. But, of course, we discovered some bugs in the stack. Please see the bug tracker (http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=224369&atid=1061241 ).
SYS TEC electronic (http://www.systec-electronic.com), systems house for distributed automation solutions and member of the Ethernet POWERLINK Standardization Group (http://www.ethernet-powerlink.org) has released its POWERLINK solution under the BSD Open Source license. It can be downloaded from this SourceForge project (http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=224369).
The software manuals are available for download on our website (www.systec-electronic.com). We invite you to post your questions or feedback to the forum (http://sourceforge.net/forum/?group_id=224369).