POWERLINK - the first real-time solution for Industrial Ethernet
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From now on Open Source: POWERLINK solution from SYS
TEC electronic GmbH
We, SYS TEC electronic GmbH, systems house
for distributed automation solutions and member of the Ethernet POWERLINK
Standardization Group (EPSG) have released our POWERLINK solution under the BSD Open
Source license. The openPOWERLINK software package - a sample implementation
for Linux systems - can now be downloaded from http://openPOWERLINK.SourceForge.net.
It contains the
protocol stack for the Managing Node (master) and for the Controlled Nodes
(clients). POWERLINK, which operates with standard, on-board Ethernet
controllers, reaches cycle times up to 0.5 milliseconds in this Open Source
implementation while ensuring high synchronicity. Supported by co-processors,
POWERLINK even ensures cycle times up to 0.1 ms.
The BSD license allows
anyone to use, distribute and modify the software and to add development
enhancements free of charge. Any user may integrate the software into products
and sell these. As long as they do not remove the copyright notice from the
underlying source code, users are not required to disclose the source code of
their own adaptations to the stack.
In releasing the software package, we
support users and manufacturers alike by enabling them to closely analyze the
Ethernet-based real-time protocol and to adapt it to their own applications
without license obstacles.
POWERLINK already is the market leader in the
field of communication systems for hard real-time applications. "Through the
Open Source release, users gain complete independence in handling the network
and are free to adapt it to their own applications. We are thereby aiming at
increasing their confidence in this fully developed technology", explains
Siegmar Schmidt, managing director of SYS TEC electronic. "We offer services to
customers and provide professional support, i.e. in adaptations for specific
operating systems or the development of customer-specific extensions. Based on
our know-how regarding the stack, we are an ideal partner for all requirements."
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