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What is Coccinelle? - Linux RTOS Howto - Git version control - GPL compliance - openPOWERLINK - Linux kernel analysis - OSADL QA Farm

by Wolfgang Wallner and Dietmar Bruckner, Bernecker + Rainer Industrial Electronics

The workshop consists of 3 parts: An introduction to the POWERLINK technology in general, an introduction to the openPOWERLINK implementation from a user viewpoint (including hands-on examples), and an overview of how one would develop own applications with openPOWERLINK:

1. POWERLINK technology basics

• How hard real-time is achieved with POWERLINK
  • Detailed discussion of the POWERLINK Data Link Layer (DLL)
• What is CANopen, and what it has to do with POWERLINK
• Introduction to the concept of an Object Dictionary
• How the POWERLINK state-machine works
• Live demonstration: Tracing POWERLINK with Wireshark
  • How individual network nodes are configured during startup
  • How cyclic POWERLINK operation works
• Open discussion: Ask any POWERLINK questions you like

2. openPOWERLINK basics

• Project overview
  • Website/wiki/mailing lists/...
  • Supported platforms
  • Who is developing openPOWERLINK
  • Release schedule
• Hands-On: Using openPOWERLINK with real hardware
  • Customizing and compiling one of the demo applications from source
  • Controlling the inputs and outputs of an industrial I/O module via POWERLINK

3. How openPOWERLINK development works

• POWERLINK development toolchain:
  • XDD files
  • openCONFIGURATOR
  • CDC files
• Discussion of the openPOWERLINK stack architecture
  • Course overview of which modules are responsible for which protocl parts
  • Which parts of the stack are portable, and which platform dependent
  • How to port openPOWERLINK to new platforms

Wolfgang Wallner is a master student at the Vienna University of Technology in the field of computer engineering.

He works part times as an embedded software developer for Bernecker + Rainer Industrial Electronics since 2007, and is actively involved in the development of openPOWERLINK since 2010.

Dietmar Bruckner works as a system architect for hard real-time industrial Ethernet-based control systems for Bernecker + Rainer Industrial Electronics since 2013. Before that, he worked as a University Assistant and project manager at the Institute of Computer Technology of the Vienna University of Technology, from which he holds both, an MSc and a PhD in Electrical Engineering.

Bruckner is a Senior Member of IEEE, and an IES TC BACM Chair and Section Austria Chapter Coordinator. He published ~70 reviewed scientific publications, and ~100 scientific publications in total.