RSC #2 @ www.industrial-embedded.com/rsc RSC #3 @ www.industrial-embedded.com/rsc www.industrial-embedded.com VOLUME 1 • NUMBER 1 OCTOBER 20 05 COMPUTING COLUMNS TECHNOLOGY 7 Foreword Thinking 48 Modern interfaces in light of embedded computer integration A fresh start to getting things done By Andreas Geh, DIGITAL-LOGIC AG By Don Dingee 54 Embedded compute models help contain costs 8 Industrial Europe By Ernest Godsey, MEN Micro Q & A with Ulrich Gerhmann, CEO, and Norbert Hauser, 57 Product Profiles VP of Marketing, Kontron EMEA HUMAN INTERFACE By Stefan Baginski TECHNOLOGY 10 Market Pulse 80 Converging functionality in embedded industrial control IEEE 802.15.4 and ZigBee By Melissa Jones, Ultimodule By Bonnie Crutcher 84 Using software-configurable processors in biometric 98 The Final Word applications It’s all about choices By Philip Weaver, Stretch, and Fred Palma, A4 Vision By Jerry Gipper 87 Product Profiles SENSORS/CONTROL FEATURES TECHNOLOGY NETWORKING 88 Combining a hardware neural network with a powerful SPECIAL: Standards automotive MCU for powertrain applications 16 Opening gates with TCP-to-CANopen By Dr. Paul Neil, Axeon By Holger Zeltwanger, CAN in Automation APPLICATION 20 Performance, implementation, and applications of 90 Open architecture PAC technology drives undersea remotely Ethernet Powerlink operated vehicles By Frank Foerster and Bill Seitz, IXXAT By Chris Ward, C&M Group TECHNOLOGY 91 Product Profiles 12 Ultra-wideband communication for low-power wireless STORAGE body area networks TECHNOLOGY By Bart Van Poucke and Bert Gyselinckx, IMEC 94 Software architecture for managing resident flash 26 Building low power into wireless sensor networks using By Robert Krantz, Datalight ZigBee technology 97 Product Profiles By Jon Adams, Freescale Semiconductor 31 Creating value with ZigBee Networks By Chris Herzog, Software Technologies Group EVENTS GSPx 34 Deploying ZigBee in existing industrial automation networks October 24-27 • Santa Clara Convention Center, Santa Clara, CA By Tim Cutler, Cirronet www.gspx.com/GSPX/2005 38 Adding industrial Ethernet with minimal software changes By John Korsakas, Grid Connect ISA Expo 42 Embracing WLANs in the industrial market October 25-27 • McCormick Place Lakeside Center, Chicago, IL By Mukesh Lulla, TeamF1, and Ron Fredericks, www.isa.org/isaexpo2005 Embedded Components APPLICATION WEB RESOURCES 40 Whiteware industry drives Ethernet bus Subscribe to the magazine or E-letter: By Debra Biela, Contemporary Controls www.opensystems-publishing.com/subscriptions 46 Product Profiles Industry news: Read: www.industrial-embedded.com/news Submit: www.opensystems-publishing.com/news/submit Published by: Submit new products: OpenSystems ©2005 Industrial Embedded Systems www.opensystems-publishing.com/vendors/submissions/np Publishing™ / 2005 Industrial Emdbedded Systems Resource Guide RSC #5 @ www.industrial-embedded.com/rsc OpenSystems Publishing™ OpenSystems Publishing Advertising/Business office: 30233 Jefferson Avenue St. Clair Shores, MI 48082 A N O PEN S Y S TEM S P UBLIC A TI O N Tel: 586-415-6500 n Fax: 586-415-4882 Vice President Marketing & Sales Patrick Hopper Embedded and Test & Analysis Group [email protected] n Embedded Computing Design Senior Account Manager n Embedded Computing Design E-letter Dennis Doyle n Embedded Computing Design Product Directory [email protected] n Account Manager Industrial Embedded Systems Resource Guide Tom Varcie n PXI Technology Review [email protected] Editorial Director Don Dingee Print and Online Marketing Specialist [email protected] Christine Long Editorial Director Jerry Gipper [email protected] Technical Editor Chad Lumsden Advertising/Marketing Coordinator [email protected] Andrea Stabile Associate Editor Jennifer Hesse [email protected] [email protected] European Bureau Chief European Representative Hermann Strass Stefan Baginski [email protected] [email protected] Special Projects Editor Bob Stasonis Account Manager Senior Designer Joann Toth Doug Cordier Senior Web Developer Konrad Witte [email protected] Graphic Specialist David Diomede Business Manager Circulation/Office Manager Phyllis Thompson Karen Layman [email protected] For reprints call the sales office: 586-415-6500 OpenSystems Publishing™OpenSystems Publishing Editorial/Production office: 16872 E. 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The services, you need to keep informed of these changes. As we very definition of industry is changing as new applications are looked at the available information sources, we found no single developed putting these new technologies to work. publication covered an industrial view of intelligent devices in computing, human interface, networking, sensors/control, and I’ve seen this change first hand when our household recently storage as a combined set of technologies. That is why we’ve shopped for a washer/dryer. Our home has some constraints in started this publication, Industrial Embedded Systems. the laundry space – it’s really more of a laundry hallway with a door to the garage opening inward just clearing the front of the In our coverage of new intelligent technologies for industrial dryer. As we started looking at washer/dryer combos we found automation, our goal is to bring you a fresh perspective that many higher-end models with the features we wanted simply combining elements from our focus categories. We look for wouldn’t fit in the available depth. We had to search harder than highly innovative, intelligent products and services that are we expected to find machines that fit our space. I can’t believe we helping create new best-practices and make significant shifts in have the smallest laundry space in America, but it’s apparently how things get done – in manufacturing, retail, entertainment, the case. transportation – anywhere automation applies. Every issue features technology and application topics along with a new But as we continued to shop, we discovered an interesting and product guide section. Contributed editorial from leading innovative solution – and probably a better performing one. We companies and standards consortiums, along with ongoing settled on appliances from Fisher & Paykel designed and built market analysis and perspectives, will help keep you up to date in New Zealand (where they must have smaller laundry spaces, on what is happening in the industry. too). The Fisher & Paykel GWL11 washer is one of the most advanced, efficient machines on the market today using about In this issue, we’ll feature viewpoints on networking standards one quarter of the energy and much less water and detergent than and applications, including TCP-to-CANopen, ETHERNET a traditional washer. Powerlink, ZigBee, 802.11i and Ethernet/IP. We also have views on embedded computing modules, system-on-chip signal This efficient performance is made possible by a clever and stylish processing, flash storage management, and application stories design centered on a programmable, direct drive brushless DC in open architecture