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I am looking into using a new product from Omron which they call an "Open Network Controller," or ONC for short. It has Ethernet 10baseT and Devicenet connectivity in addition to various Omron network protocols, and is supposed to soon support Profibus.
It is basically a diskless PC running an embedded OS called QNX, which as I can tell from their website, is a proprietary linux variant claiming to have superior real time control. They claim it to be fully compatible with linux, GNU, POSIX, Ansii C/C++. Sounds like linux to me.
Anyhow, the product also can be ordered with a "Soft Logic Controller" called IsaGRAF, by Transysoft. In addition, it says "All IEC1131-3 programming languages supported in addition to flowchart." I don't know what those languages are.
Has anybody worked with this? Anyone familiar with QNX? It looks like it has a nice industrial harware package that could fit into the LPLC project.
Dale
Honda Eq Staff
It is basically a diskless PC running an embedded OS called QNX, which as I can tell from their website, is a proprietary linux variant claiming to have superior real time control. They claim it to be fully compatible with linux, GNU, POSIX, Ansii C/C++. Sounds like linux to me.
Anyhow, the product also can be ordered with a "Soft Logic Controller" called IsaGRAF, by Transysoft. In addition, it says "All IEC1131-3 programming languages supported in addition to flowchart." I don't know what those languages are.
Has anybody worked with this? Anyone familiar with QNX? It looks like it has a nice industrial harware package that could fit into the LPLC project.
Dale
Honda Eq Staff