CanFestival on the Micropral
Some weeks ago, I integrated CanFestival on the Micropral, a tiny PLC running Linux and Xenomai on ARM.
Le Micropral
The Micropral is a target for ALOGRAF STUDIO, an automation workbench that focus on providing deterministic and optimized execution of Sequencial Function Charts.
Making CanFestival fit in ALOGRAF STUDIO requirements was the most interesting part of the work, and also implied passing some good time with UXP SA development team, in Grenoble, France.
CanFestival itself cross-compiled without any problem choosing appropriate arguments for the configure script. More challenging, this port implied to write a specific real-time CAN driver using RT-SocketCan in order to support the CAN controller available in the Micropral.
UXP will present the Micropral during workshops at the French CANopen Days 2008, the 9th and 10th of September.
Once again, CanFestival proved its ability to be used in rather complex situation. ALOGRAF STUDIO is the second automation workbench to use CanFestival as its CANopen® framework, not so long after Beremiz. Who's next ?
Edouard.
