NI, Freescale and Wind River Combine Technologies to Streamline Embedded Design

New NI CompactRIO Controller Delivers Increased Processing Speed, Memory and Storage for Embedded Control and Monitoring Applications

National Instruments, Freescale Semiconductor and Wind River are working together to help engineers simplify embedded design, including industrial control and monitoring, with the release of the latest high-performance, real-time controller for the NI CompactRIO platform. The National Instruments cRIO-9014 controller is based on the Freescale MPC5200 processor built on Power Architecture™ technology and the Wind River VxWorks real-time operating system (RTOS) to deliver the processing speed, memory and storage required for a variety of demanding embedded and industrial applications such as high-speed machine control, machine monitoring/protection, in-vehicle data logging and embedded device prototyping.

Combining key technologies from the three companies, the new cRIO-9014 controller makes CompactRIO an ideal industrial control and monitoring platform that blends capabilities found individually in PLCs, industrial PCs, single-board devices and custom hardware. Traditionally, engineers designing industrial machines or embedded control systems were forced to use multiple hardware and software tools to perform complex algorithms, data logging and custom signal processing. The CompactRIO programmable automation controller (PAC) platform takes advantage of the reliability of the VxWorks RTOS and the MPC5200 industrial floating-point processor in the new controller, as well as the customization of the Xilinx FPGA chipset in the chassis, to deliver the ruggedness and reliability of a PLC, the openness and power of industrial or single-board computers and the flexibility and performance of custom hardware. In addition, the CompactRIO embedded system can be programmed with a single, intuitive graphical tool, National Instruments LabVIEW, which makes it easy for domain experts to develop and deploy custom, high-performance industrial embedded solutions.

The cRIO-9014 controller delivers the highest processing power, as well as the highest amount of memory and nonvolatile storage, of the entire family of CompactRIO controllers. The new controller has a Freescale 400 MHz MPC5200 processor that contains an integrated floating-point unit and hardware-based memory management unit, providing engineers with fast data throughput to handle complex signal processing algorithms for control prototyping and machine monitoring/protection applications. The Wind River VxWorks RTOS running on the MPC5200 processor provides the controller with dependable performance to reduce jitter and increase reliability for high-speed control applications. The cRIO-9014 controller also contains a fault-tolerant file system, making it ideal for embedded logging applications where reliable logging is critical.

About Wind River
Wind River is the global leader in device software optimization (DSO). Wind River enables companies to develop and run device software faster, better, at lower cost and more reliably. Wind River platforms are pre-integrated, fully standardized enterprise-wide development solutions. They reduce effort, cost and risk and optimize quality and reliability at all phases of the device software development process from concept to deployed product.
Founded in 1981, Wind River is headquartered in Alameda, California, with operations worldwide.


About National Instruments
National Instruments is transforming the way engineers and scientists design, prototype and deploy systems for measurement, automation and embedded applications. NI empowers customers with off-the-shelf software such as NI LabVIEW and modular cost-effective hardware, and sells to a broad base of more than 25,000 different companies worldwide, with no one customer representing more than 3 percent of revenue and no one industry representing more than 10 percent of revenue. Headquartered in Austin, Texas, NI has more than 4,000 employees and direct operations in nearly 40 countries. For the past eight years, FORTUNE magazine has named NI one of the 100 best companies to work for in America.

More information:

Pressoffice Wind River:
http://windriver.talkabout.de

For more details, visit
http://www.windriver.com/news/press/2007.html

talkabout communications gmbh
Sabine Fach
D-81669 München
Phone: +49 89 459954-21
E-Mail: SFach@talkabout.de
Internet: http://www.talkabout.de

Wind River GmbH
Evelyn Hochholzer
D-85737 Ismaning
Phone: +49 89 962445-120
E-Mail: evi.hochholzer@windriver.com
Internet: http://www.windriver.com

National Instruments Germany GmbH
Silke Loos
D-81369 München
Phone: +49 89 7413130
E-Mail: ni.germany@ni.com
Internet: http://www.ni.com

This release was published on openPR.