industrial software

• Virtualizing legacy control systems for an efficient, scalable, low-cost IIoT

  

  The irony of the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) is that it requires architectures that enable quick, in some cases real-time iteration and change from markets that often rely on industrial control systems (ICSs) that aren’t modified, upgraded, or replaced for years; in some cases, decades. There are several factors that contribute to the [...]

  Brandon Lewis, Technology Editor and Jamie Leland, Content Assistant

• Industrial motion control: Software creates better value and performance than hardware

  

  Embedded OEMs – especially those whose products have complex human-machine interfaces (HMIs), manage many degrees of motion, and require hard real-time operation – have traditionally relied on field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) and digital signal processors (DSPs) to meet the precision and performance requirements of machine vision and motion control applications. Today, that hardware-centric model [...]

  Dipesh Mukerji, KINGSTAR

• Five keys to securing the IIoT data pipe

  

  Industrial systems have traditionally had connectivity at least at some level, so why with the dawn of the Industrial Internet (or Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT)) has security now become such a poignant issue?

  Brandon Lewis, Technology Editor

• Safety-certified software advances on multicore SoCs

  

  Rather than the discrete, single-function platforms of the past, today's industrial systems are built around multicore processors that are increasingly packing performance into compute equipment. Now, software developers are taking advantage of these multicore architectures with RTOS and hypervisor solutions that enable multifunction, safety-certifiable industrial systems that still retain their deterministic nature.

  Brandon Lewis, Technology Editor

• Model-Based Design abstracts integrated software development: Q&A with Jim Tung, MathWorks Fellow

  

  Jim Tung describes how Model-Based Design (MBD) brings a higher level of abstraction to Integrated Development Environments (IDEs).

  Brandon Lewis, Technology Editor