Industrial Automation and Controls
Intelligraphics' embedded control systems programming team consistently provides our customers in the industrial automation and controls industry with high quality, technically innovative driver solutions for their unique hardware. Intelligraphics possesses broad development expertise in all areas of system level development.
Our engineers are familiar with a wide variety of industrial automation and control hardware including rugged and single board computers, telecommunication devices and PLCs. Intelligraphics is an industry leader in system level development with knowledge of many embedded hardware technologies, operating systems, bus architectures and protocols.
VME Driver Development
Intelligraphics' experienced development team can develop software to support your VME hardware. Our team can develop software support for your rugged computers, industrial workstations, or any other CPU requirement. Intelligraphics' engineers can develop support for I/O add-in cards for industrial systems including analog or digital modules for data acquisition, modular DA&C and remote I/O modules.
CompactPCI Driver Development
Intelligraphics provides driver development for compactPCI. Intelligraphics has the development knowledge to support the growing popularity of compactPCI as a more inexpensive, versatile, and measurable alternative to VME. With added features like hotswap and high availability/redundancy, many customers need Intelligraphics' development support for products on this alternative hardware technology. CompactPCI continues to gain in popularity with hardware products like telecommunications equipment and Intelligraphics is committed to remain at the forefront to support developing technology in the industry.
PMC Board Driver Development
Intelligraphics' team can provide driver development for PMC boards. Our engineers are familiar with the mezzanine type boards and their plug-in features for both VME and compactPCI boards. With our strong networking and protocol stack development expertise, our team can support almost any type of added functionality of PMC boards including Ethernet, NICs, communications, and video adapters.
Operating Systems
The Intelligraphics Industrial Automation and Controls experience stems from our deep knowledge of real-time operating systems. Intelligraphics is experienced in all major windows operating systems as well as RTOS platforms used in the industrial automation and controls industry including:
- Windows (all versions)
- Embedded NT
- Embedded Linux
- UNIX
- Solaris
- VxWorks
- QNX
- Phar Lap
- Enea OSE
- Proprietary RTOS
Protocols
Intelligraphics' development team is familiar with the architecture, design, development, and implementation of industrial automation and control system protocols. Intelligraphics can provide system level software and protocol stack development to support many industrial automation systems.
OPC Protocol
With the proliferation of so many devices, OPC has emerged as a solution for integration and interoperability between automation systems. Intelligraphics development team has significant expertise with the Windows NT operating system and can provide system level software development for the OPC environment. Intelligraphics has expertise with the OPC and the OLE process control extension (ActiveX) for Microsoft Operating Systems and has substantial experience in COM and DCOM development. Intelligraphics can also incorporate support for synchronous and asynchronous capable devices on your OPC system.
ModBus Protocol
Our development team is familiar with the Modbus Protocol messaging structure. Intelligraphics can develop system level software support for a variety of media (e.g. fiber, radio, cellular, etc.) including ModBus over Ethernet and TCP/IP. Intelligraphics' engineers also have knowledge of Modbus Plus, a higher speed token passing derivative of Modbus.
Other Protocols
Intelligraphics' development team has experience with several other protocols. Our team of engineers can provide development support for other protocols including Fieldbus, Profibus, Interbus, DeviceNet, and AS-Interface.