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gclib Now Supports Raspberry Pi
Galil's gclib has been ported to Raspbian Jessie, an opertating system for Raspberry Pi. gclib is Galil's C-compatible application programming interface (API) for communicating with Galil motion controllers and PLCs. The Raspberry Pi is a low cost, small form factor single board computer. Raspbian Jessie is the latest operating system for Raspberry Pi hardware. The Raspberry Pi 2 Model B is the hardware supported in this release.
Australian Synchrotron EPICS Upgrades
In June, 2014 Galil announced its EPICS Baseline support. EPICS is an acronym which stands for Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System. It is an open source, distributed software framework used extensively in “Big Physics” projects such as particle accelerators, telescopes, and other large-scale experimental installations.
The Conformance Tested RIO-57420 is Now Available with 16 bit Analog I/O
The RIO-574x0 series is Galil's first EtherCAT Slave I/O Controller. This device is specifically designed to interface seamlessly with Galil's EtherCAT Master Motion Controller, the DMC-500x0, but it can also be used with any generic EtherCAT Master.