Product category: Embedded Software and Operating Systems
News Release from: Kuka Controls | Subject: CeWin 3.3 and VxWin 3.0
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 30 June 2005
Real-time extensions aid automotive development
Kuka Controls has released new versions of its CeWin and VxWin real-time extensions, giving developers a foundation for following OMAC guidelines
Kuka Controls has released new versions of its CeWin (3.3) and VxWin (3.0) real-time extensions, giving developers a foundation for following OMAC guidelines. These nonproprietary extensions allow real-time operating systems, either Microsoft Windows CE or Wind River VxWorks, to reside concurrently on a single processor with Windows XP.
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They enable an application to be optimised for the features of each operating system.
Windows CE or VxWorks is available for data acquisition, motion control and PLC operations, while Windows XP handles the high-end visualisation and connectivity features.
The architecture of CeWin and VxWin enables suppliers of industrial controls to maximise system flexibility and connectivity while minimising cost, maintenance and training.
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In practice, designers can incorporate commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) versions of VxWorks or Windows CE (RTOS) with a COTS version of Windows XP into their systems to produce hard real-time performance with all the additional advantages of the Windows XP operating system.
No proprietary optimisations or modifications need to be made.
Communication between the RTOS and Windows occurs over a shared memory TCP/IP network interface.
The addition of Windows XP standardises connectivity with the enterprise, offers a selection of high-end graphical interfaces as well as availability of the wide range of Windows XP applications.
Use of a single system also increases overall reliability while lowering hardware and programming costs and reducing power consumption and system size and weight.
The system is highly modular.
Applications can be scaled to multiple CPUs using a hardware network interface.
Application training requirements can be reduced because of industry familiarity with Windows XP.
'Recognising the industry acceptance of VxWorks, Windows CE and Windows XP along with the maturity and installed base of CeWin and VxWin greatly assists system providers in meeting the guidelines of OMAC when supplying to the automotive industry', notes Gerd Lammers, Director of Sales and Marketing Worldwide.
'Both CeWin and VxWin gives automotive suppliers the foundation for developing economical, maintainable, open, modular and scalable systems'.
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