Introducing the FireCracker!
Based on Analog Devices popular Blackfin embedded processor, Silica has developed the FireCracker Development and Reference Design Platform for audio and video applications. FireCracker is a unique concept of a hybrid between a development board and a reference design that enables design engineers to bring embedded computing solutions from concept to production in record time.

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Rob's Fieldbus Pages
Welcome to the Fieldbus Reference List, now entering its second year in existence since I started this webpage which is now collecting almost 1000 hits per month.. To my surprise the number of systems I collected is still growing, now nearing 270 since the latest addition of ISO 11783, CAN Calibration Protocol, and the CC-Link protocol.
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Romilly's HART® and Fieldbus Web Site
HART (Highway Addressable Remote Transducer) is a digital communication protocol which operates on top of a conventional 4-to-20mA current loop signal from a measurement device - a transmitter - or to a valve positioner. HART uses a low-level frequency-shift-keyed sine-wave signal to convey the digital communication. Also tracks Fieldbus info.
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Fieldbus Foundation
You've arrived at FIELDBUS ONLINE, the Worldwide Web's most comprehensive resource for information about fieldbus. Do you need to know what fieldbus technology is? What it can do for your company? Where to find the products and systems that incorporate the most advanced, widely accepted fieldbus technology in the world?
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WorldFIP
WorldFIP is a registered non-profit organisation, which exists to promote the development and application of an open fieldbus, that is well placed to form the basis of the future International Standard. The WorldFIP Board is composed of a mixture of vendors, end-users and third-parties such as academic/research organisations, which helps to keep the evolution of WorldFIP on a path that will meet the declared aims.
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Fieldbus From Wikipedia
A Fieldbus is an industrial network system for real-time distributed control. A complex automated industrial system - say a manufacturing assembly line - usually needs an organized hierarchy of controller systems to function. In this hierarchy there is usually a Human Machine Interface (HMI) at the top, where an operator can monitor or operate the system. This is typically linked to a middle layer of programmable logic controllers (PLC)...
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Foundation Fieldbus Overview
This chapter gives a short overview of Foundation Fieldbus and describes the parts of a Foundation Fieldbus network. Refer to the Glossary for more explanation of Fieldbus terms and concepts. The generic term fieldbus refers to any bus that connects to field devices. This includes Foundation Fieldbus, NI-CAN, DNET, and Profibus. In this manual, the term Fieldbus refers specifically to the Foundation Fieldbus.
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