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Fieldbusses and Interfaces
The interface between an industrial PC and it's environment is very important for most applications. Linux supports a variety of industrial standard interfaces and field busses.
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General Interfaces
| Linux 1394 Project |
FireWire (IEEE 1394) is a modern serial interface standard to carry large data rates. It is mostly intended to connect high bandwidth peripherals like video cameras and hard disks to a PC. |
| IP over 1394 |
A kernel module to enable TCP/IP networking over IEEE1394 FireWire connections. |
| Linux USB |
The Universal Serial Bus was developed to connect periperals to desktop PCs. In the meantime there are also some sensors with an USB interface. |
| The Linux IrDA Project |
Infrared interface for peripherals |
| LIRC |
The Linux Infrared Remote Control Software |
| Linux Bluetooth Project |
Bluetooth Treiber von Axis. |
| rtnet |
The rtnet driver from Lineo enables a private ethernet to react in realtime. At the time beeing there is support for just a few ethernet boards. |
| RkJava |
A Java interface to some PLCs (e.g. Siemens Simatic S5, S7). This is a frontend to the rkxxx-server packets from Emig Software. |
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Field Busses
| I2C-Bus |
Drivers for the I²C bus |
| Linux CAN Driver |
The Linux CAN Driver project. |
| CAN by Janz |
Janz supports Linux for their CAN bus cards. |
| Hilscher |
Hilscher has Linux supported interface boards (PCI and PC/104) for all major fieldbusses. |
| CAN von MicroControl |
MicroControl does also support Linux for their CAN interface cards. In addition you'll find the CANpie GPL project; it wants to implement an API for ISO/OSI layer 2. |
| CanFestival |
| DeviceNet |
DeviceNet is a high level protocol on top of CAN. This driver controls the SST 5136-DN cards from SST. |
| Interbus |
Driver for the IBS PC ISA SC/I-T controller boards by Phoenix Contact. |
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Industrial Busses
| VME Linux |
VME bus support for Linux. |
| VME ISA Bridge |
ISA to VME bridge by Wiener. Drivers are available for Linux at the Institute for Nuclear Physics of Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe. |
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Building Automation
| EWMS II |
The Amann EWMS II Communications Gateway is a Linux based system to connect a variety of subsystems to the BACnet protocol. The system supports EIB, Modbus, M-Bus, Grundfoss and serveral other bus systems. Due to Linux and Web technology it is a stable and easy to program interface, which is very flexible due to it's modular concept. |
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Protocols
| COM/DCOM |
Intrinsyc offers a Linux COM/DCOM library. This enables access to the communication protocols from the Windows world. The company is also planning an OPC suite based on this product. |
| FreeDCE |
Projekt to implement free versions of the DCE and DCOM protocols. |
