ЖУРНАЛ «СТА» №3/2007

TABLE OF CONTENTS CTA 3/2007 DEVELOPMENT/ Control & Measuring Systems 56 An instrumental complex for the design of the embed- ded real-time control systems By Mark Cheldiev, Nikolay Talan, Leonard Plakhov , Aleksandr Belonogov, Pavel Maleev and Sergey Khokhlov The article covers the issues concerning the design of an instrumental complex for designing the embedded real-time systems. The complex sup- ports a full development cycle enabling the high-speed simulation of the systems and the algorithms running. Also included are the descriptions of the aviation, marine and train systems as well as the energy accounting and the subway facilities control systems designed by means of this instrumental complex. HARDWARE/ Industrial Controllers 68 Fastwel I/O inside. Part 3 By Aleksandr Lokotkov The structure and operation of the basic components of a Fastwel I/O hard- ware-software complex intended for designing automated data acquisition and control systems are considered, and design approaches are discussed. FBUS module-communicating internal bus, an adapted environment for CoDeSys application programs, network protocol services, and interaction between the complex’s basic components are described in detail. HARDWARE/ Drives 76 Advanced automation technologies. The LEXIUM ser- vosystems By Aleksandr Ganin HARDWARE/ Flash Memory 78 The solid-state disks are the reliable solution for the mission-critical applications. Part 1 By Albert Baishev The article provides a comparative analysis of the efficiency of data storage on the solid-state and hard disks and offers an overview of the existing for- mats of the solid-state disks. The article investigates the problems typical for the NAND-memory and shows how these problems can be handled utilizing the TrueFFS ® software thus making the NAND-memory advantages as to capacity, efficiency, reliability and cost available to the users. SOFTWARE/ Real-Time Operating Systems 82 Secure real-time operating system By Sergey Zyl and Vladimir Makhilev The article reveals the secret of success of the QNX secure hard real-time operating system, tells the story of its creation and certification to meet the Russian requirements for the information security and technological independence. STANDARDS AND CERTIFICATION 86 The procedural issues of application of the electronic devices in the defense technology: the legislative basis and the realities of life By Dmitry Kobzar The article discusses the existing legislative basis in the field of application of both foreign and Russian “civilian” electronics in the defense equip- ment, licensing of the developments and manufacturing of products for the defense needs as well as the problems of practical application of the established procedures and vision of the ways for their solution. The article is primarily intended for the customers of the defense prod- ucts, chief designers and management of the enterprises working or hav- ing intention to work at the electronic market of the defense industry. ENGINEER’S NOTEBOOK 98 Specific features of the ADAM-5510E/TCP controller programming By Aleksey Baraboshkin The article unveils some peculiarities of the control system programming on ADAM-5510 and ADAM I/O modules. EXHIBITIONS, CONFERENCES, SEMINARS 100 Parade of the ICONICS technologies: summing-up 100 ISA District 12 conference SHOWROOM 103 SYSTEM INTEGRATION PROJECTS IN BRIEF 109 NEWS 22, 55, 80 REVIEW/ Hardware 6 Industrial PCs in the light of the new technologies By Ivan Lopukhov The article gives an overview of the main trends at the market of the industrial computers and its components. The new technologies and stan- dards that have found use in the advanced models from the leading man- ufactures of the motherboards and processor boards as well as the chas- sis for the industrial PCs and servers are described here. 12 PC/104 processor boards: new goals, new standards, new capabilities By Aleksandr Buravlev The article discusses the design of the high-performance embedded com- puter systems based on the PC/104 standard. The arrangement of the efficient heat removal and use of various interfaces including PCI Express to provide data exchange between the processor boards and the applica- tion boards are outlined here. 16 AdvantiX industrial computers: order it. it’s just not impossible to refuse By Sergey Dronov This article describes the Fastwel AdvantiX line, production technology and advantages of the use of the mass assembled industrial computers and servers. Also, a detailed description of each Fastwel AdvantiX model is provided. 24 Basic principles of design of the high-performance and highly reliable CompactPCI systems By Valeriy Yakovlev The article examines the specific features of the design of the high-per- formance and highly reliable control systems utilizing the CompactPCI- standard products. The characteristics of the PCI bus which is the basis of the CompactPCI-based module bus system specification are briefly cov- ered. Also discussed in detail are the implementation of a multiprocessing system on one CompactPCI bus segment and more as well as the logical arrangement of the passive integrated backplanes supporting the PICMG 2.16 specification. The article offers the basic recommendations as to the design of the CompactPCI-systems enabling the maximum use of the benefits of this dynamically emerging standard. Examples of the state-of- the-art CompactPCI-based hardware, both foreign and Russian are given here. DEVELOPMENT/ Marine Equipment 32 A Multiprocessing computer system for the hard real- time tasks By Vladimir Sevbo, Anatoliy Orlov and Andrey Loshakov The article reviews the design principles for the hard real-time computing systems. The basic data on the multiprocessor computer system devel- oped by NPP Aviation and Marine Electronics and the use of this comput- er for building the cluster high-performance computing systems are pre- sented here. 40 An Ethernet-based multichannel distributed system for the synchronous hard real-time data acquisition By Vladimir Sevbo, Anatoliy Orlov and Andrey Loshakov The article discusses the design principles for the multichannel distributed system for the synchronous data acquisition utilizing the Ethernet tech- nologies in the hard real-time conditions, with emphasis on the methods for compensating the time delay and synchronizing the data takeoff from a great many sources. The system is intended for use as a part of the marine equipment, but its design principles are universal, and they can be employed in variety of industrial applications. DEVELOPMENT/ Safety 46 TV monitoring system By Aleksandr Aleksandrov and Sergey Soloviev The article describes the television system for monitoring the facilities of various applications. This system provides continuous monitoring of the scene, thus enabling the timely detection of the contingencies and reduc- tion of time for their correction. DEVELOPMENT/ Astronautics 50 An automated system for maintaining the set conditions for transporting the space vehicles to a launch site By Evgeniy Peslyak and Georgiy Tvoronovich The article focuses on the purpose and functions of the automated control and monitoring system (ACMS) for the temperature and moisture parame- ters when transporting the space vehicles to a launch site. The architec- ture of the ACMS implemented on the MicroPC hardware is presented here. The article shows the results of testing this system together with the the space vehicle. СТА 3/2007 www.cta.ru 112 CD-ROM in this issue Fastwel