KINGSTAR seeks to offer the best, pre-integrated, motion control, and fieldbus (e.g. EtherCAT) framework that allows our customers to easily build a customized Windows-based machine controller that is tailored to their industries. Importantly, KingStar uses a “black box” approach and can handle all the real-time, closed-loop operations for precision and the APIs are all accessible from Microsoft Windows. Building a system is simple compared with dealing directly with an RTOS and motion cards. Today’s powerful Windows PC and Microsoft’s Visual Studio development environment provide an ideal platform for building a complete machine controller that doesn’t require an additional stand-alone, real-time operating system, or expensive, proprietary hardware such as motion cards, DSPs, or FPGAs.
