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S4Cplus robot controller ABB Robotics AB is leading in robot based automation with 250,000 robots installed worldwide.

The company develops and manifactures industrial robots used in a wide range of applications - from car production plants, and the food, pharmaceutical and consumer electronics industries, through to chocolate making. More than 90% of the production is exported and all the large car manifactures in the world are among the customers.

The company has a large R&D department which develops the mechanical unit, software and hardware for the robot controller.

Newcon Data AB has during the years, from 1999 to 2015, performed a number of software projects for ABB Robotics, related to the IRC5 and S4Cplus robot controllers.

Platform for development of device drivers

  • Design specification, development and fault tracing of software for an event driven platform for development of device drivers for industrial networks. Software developed in C for real-time OS VxWorks on Pentium based PCI CPU board.

Development of device drivers for industrial networks

  • Development and fault tracing of device drivers for industrial networks such as DeviceNet, PROFIBUS-DP, PROFINET, EtherNetIP and Interbus. Software developed in C for real-time OS VxWorks on Pentium based PCI CPU board.

Fault tracing and customer support

  • Fault tracing and customer support concering I/O handling and industrial networks in the IRC5 robot controller.

Design and user documentation

Software for automatic tests

  • Design and development of software for automatic BTC, component and module tests.

Development of object orientented API for I/O handling

  • Designspecification, development and fault tracing of software for object orientented API, handling I/O in the robot controller. Functions for object-, event- and signal handling, and synchronisation of industrial networks. Software developed in C for real-time OS VxWorks on Pentium based PCI CPU board.

Software for I/O handling

  • Development and fault tracing of functions for I/O handling through DeviceNet fieldbus and time synchronization in the S4Cplus, PCI based multi processor, robot controller. Software developed i C for real-time OS VxWorks on Intel 80x86 and PowerPC 860 based PCI CPU boards.

Development of Windows NT I/O Manager device driver framework for real-time OS VxWorks

  • Implementation of the Windows NT's device driver API and the I/O Manager framework for the real-time OS VxWorks running in a PCI-based multi processor robot controller.
  • Development of device drivers. Software developed i C for real-time OS VxWorks on Intel 80x86 and PowerPC 860 based PCI CPU boards.
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