Janz Embedded PCs now support RTAI
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| Janz emPC-M |
RTAI (www.rtai.org) and Xenomai (www.xenomai.org) are real-time Linux extensions. RTAI (RealTime Application Interface for Linux) - lets you write applications with strict timing constraints, whereas Xenomai provides “Skins” for emulating API-requests for different real-time operating systems.
For instance, a sample configuration from the emPC-M embedded family is offered with ample Compact Flash capacity (e.g. 4 GB) and includes Debian Etch 4.0 and RTAI. To protect Compact Flash data, certain data fields are sourced to main memory at boot-up.
Initially, embedded PCs from the emPC and emVIEW families will have RTAI/Xenomai support. This support will be followed shortly by the most frequently-used CAN-interfaces.
Janz Automationssysteme AG
Daniela Tüllmann
Im Doerener Feld 8
33100 Paderborn
Germany
phone: +49-5251-1550-0
fax: +49-5251-1550-190
email: mailas@janz.de
www.janz.com
Janz Automationssysteme AG is a supplier of electronic components for automation. Customers come mainly from the machine design industry. Automation concepts have been realized in all categories of machinery, such as packaging, milling and printing machines; also medical systems and automobile and aircraft test equipment, all designed with components from Janz.
“You may not see our name prominently, but our products are currently running in lots of systems in daily use around the world!” says company director Arnulf Lockmann, when asked about the application of Janz products. “The bottle of milk you buy in the store, the LCD television or the electronic traffic sign installed on roadways, the engine in your car - all these systems may be controlled, built or tested within the help of Janz systems and automation components
The biggest international market areas of the Janz AS are, beside Germany, Italy, France, Scandinavia and the US.