04/02/2007 -- National Instruments (NI), Freescale Semiconductor, and Wind River have announced that they 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.
The cRIO-9014 controller marks the second time the companies are working together on the CompactRIO platform. The companies previously worked together on the National Instruments cRIO-9012 controller introduced in November 2006. Combining technologies from the three companies, the new cRIO-9014 blends capabilities found individually in programmable logic controllers (PLCs), industrial PCs, single-board devices and custom hardware.
The CompactRIO embedded system can be programmed with National Instruments LabVIEW. 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 well suited for embedded logging applications where reliable logging is critical.
The cRIO-9014 complements the existing family of CompactRIO controllers (see table) to deliver the increased performance needed for industrial embedded applications while maintaining the ruggedness, reliability and low cost of the CompactRIO platform.
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