For long, engineers have relied on PLCs because they offer hardened real time control. Their only downside is the steep replacement costs they incur since…

EtherCAT is a real time and flexible Ethernet protocol that was published as IEC 61158 standard. Real time EtherCAT data exchange follows a “processing on…

In plant floor control, real time is defined as the required performance among traditional field bus applications (intelligent devices and I/O). Field bus is always…

Windows 10 IoT is an evolution/ upgrade of Windows Embedded; a previous Windows edition. Microsoft offers two version of Windows 10 IoT; IoT enterprise and…

In a General-Purpose Operating System (GPOS or OS), the OS takes responsibility for scheduling all tasks or threads of execution.  Often user tasks take priority…