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    The document discusses several new technologies: 1) LabView 7.1 software which allows debugging and timing analysis of real-time applications, helping to identify sources of jitter. 2) A portable power plant simulator that can model full power generation systems and be taken anywhere for operator training. 3) Agilent expanding its digital television design library and verification test benches, allowing designs to be tested earlier in the development process.

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    The document discusses several new technologies: 1) LabView 7.1 software which allows debugging and timing analysis of real-time applications, helping to identify sources of jitter. 2) A portable power plant simulator that can model full power generation systems and be taken anywhere for operator training. 3) Agilent expanding its digital television design library and verification test benches, allowing designs to be tested earlier in the development process.

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    LABMEWTRACES CODE IN REALTIME


    National Instruments has built on its existing LabView 7 Express graphical development offering and released LabView 7.1 last month. It consists of many new features, including its applicability to a wider range of reconfigurable I/O hardware targets, advanced programming in real time, enhanced mathematics and analysis capabilities, a redesigned NI-DAQmx measurement sewice and its availability on desktop PCs without the need for additional PC cards. However, one of the most interesting features is the LabView Execution Trace Toolkit 1.0, which will allow debugging and give timing information of applications running on LabView real-time targets, such as PXI controllers, Compact Fieldpoint, the NI Compact Vision system and standard desktop PCs. With this tool, engineers can quickly - and visually - identify and remedy sources of jitter,

    Edinburgh-based Reactec has developed an operators can leam new techniques and practice integrated control unit which, with minimal them safely. training. adapts automaticallyto the require Controls and screens are configured to menb of individual systems. At the core of the mimic units of up to 660MW.enabling trainees system is a unique algorithm for detecting and to see the consequences of their adions in real measuring resonance frequencies. This time - for example, when reading quickly to a information is then fed to another control boiler tube leak during a unit run-up. The algorithm which calculates the optimum software incorporatesseveral hundred damping level or force output over 40W times component fauks and scenarios, allowing every second. Empowefs instructops to test the sklls of Roughly the size of a matchboh and with a delegates on training courses. ' m i l e we have power consumption of less than 250mW. the large fixed simulators at our training centre, it system is suitable for a wide range of can be timeconsuming and expensive for applications, ranging from vehide suspension customersto send large numbers of delegates systems to industrial machinery. here," said Empower trainer, Paul lpper, "but with the portable simulator we can go to them DESIGN FOR DIGITAL and provide the Same level of training on site:' Recent additions to Agilent Technologies's digital The simulator runs in parallel on six PG, television (an/)design library make it easier for replicatingthe soft desk control systems now developers to verify their designs earlier in the installed in the majority of modern power product lifeqcle. The libraly w o k with Agilenls stations. Built-in flexlbility allows the simulator to

    as well as 'thrashing: when two or more loops in the code start fighting for prioriv. The Execution Trace Toolkt 1.0 will initially be offered as an addon to LabVlew 7.1 at 8995.

    be tailored to suit paldcular plants and specfic scenarios.

    AVOID THE SHAKES


    Excess vibration isn't just a nuisance - in a manufacturing environment it can lead to lost production, loss of precision on sensitive equipment and wear of expensive machinely Active vibration control, where a reciprocal outof-phase displacement is generated in real-time, can substantially reduce vibration levels, akhough controlleps have to be tailored to the requirements of specific systems.

    PORTABLE POWER
    Empower Training from Notbnghamshire has 'shrunk' its power plant simulator so that it can be taken anywhere in the wodd packed in three small cases. The technology uses a Microsoft Windows platform to model all the systems and processes involved in power generation, providing a realistic environment where

    Advanced Design System (ADS) and RF Design Environment (RFDE) electronic design automation software to provide models and verification test-benches for analysing the RF effects in communications devices designed to both European (DVB-T) and Japanese (ISDET) DTV standards. As well as providing engineers with intellectual property that enables them to make a quick stam on RFbaseband design, the test benches make it possible to link ADS-simulated data with Agilent instruments to verify vittual designs and existing hardware. Previously, says

    Agilent, verification could only be performed after all the system hardware was built and measured with test instrumentation. DTV models and test benches created within the ADS Ptolemy environment can be used with ADS or imported into Agilent RFDE. When imported into RFDE, designers can access D W test-benches from within the Cadence analogue and mixed-signal design framework to verify circuit designs before manufacturing begins. 'The libraly gives engineers the advantage of being able to test and verify their designs during each stage of development, helping to speed the design process," said Afshin Amini, product manager of Agilent's EEsof EDA division.

    cameras, which would normally be used to link people living in remote communities with healthcare professionalsvia satellite. Ben Webster, leader of the Everest expedition, says: "By using the wireless telehealth system we will not only see how our bodies are reactingto the exertion, but will also be able to track the data, be cognisant of significant changes or trends and be able to make decisions based on that information."

    addressed soon. "In two to five years' time this technical problem will be solved! ERTEC 200 will be in volume production by the end of the year from Siemens and NEC, with the ERTEC 400 following in 2005. Profibus International claimed that the number of devices installed worldwide had passed the 10 million mark at the end of 2003 and expected to reach 20 million by 2008.

    LASERS AID GREEN DEMOLITION ETHERNET IN CONTROL


    Profibus International is to scale up the introduction of its Profinet Ethernet-based automation technology with the roll-out this year of chips designed to handle demanding motioncontrol applications. The ERTEC 200 and ERTEC 400ASIC switches are the latest development in plans to offer users a way of integrating their control systems with IT infrastructure. Profinet combines Researchers at UMIST's Laser Research Process Centre (LRPC) are working with a Cheshire environmental and safety consultancyto save energy and resources on building sites. The project by Techsafe Consultants will develop ways to dismantle brick structures, clean the bricks and reuse them on the same site. The research will investigate a variety of new techniques: using lasers to cut through highstrength mortars, a robotic arm to lift off the

    NEW HEIGHTS FOR TELEMEDICINE


    A health monitoring telemedicine kit developed for nurses to use on remote home visits is being used to aid a group of climbers in their

    attempt to scale Mount Everest.Their medical

    data will be monitored and sent wirelessly to Bluetooth-enabledPDAs, where it will be stored for transmission via satellite to a Canadianhosted website. The technology was developed for a Canadian telehealth project by March Networks, with co-funding from the European Space Agency and Telesat of Canada. The portable kit is equipped to monitor blood oxygen levels, heart rates, blood pressure and body temperatures of the climbers. It can operate independently of its companion video setvices gateway and videoconferencing

    an open TCP/IP channel with a separate realtime data channel for higher performance cyclic and event-controlled data, and approach that allows it to offer cycle times as low as 250ps. The technology is claimed to be capable of integrating any type of fieldbus network. 'The market penetration of Ethernet-based systems will take some time due to the fact the Fieldbus systems are still cheaper, are wellproven and have users trained to handle the technology," said Profibus International chairman, Edgar Kuester. He predicted that technical issues over instrisic safety will be

    bricks without damage, and lasers combined with high-pressurewater cleaning to remove the old mortar from the bricks. Phillip Bland, chief consultant at Techsafe, contacted Professor Lin Li, director of LRPC, after working on the North West Development Agency's Sustainable Demolition project. Bland says: "Despite the progress made by the demolition industry in the last decade, this more advanced demolition process should reduce noise and save energy and natural resources in the demolition to construction cycle, while remaining competitive on costs!

    IEE Review 1 May 2004 I www.iee.org/review

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