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Our credo is of the creation of a SPEED7 building set for every interested developer, allowing you to research a high performance and "state of the art" automation system. The System is built with communication and control components on an open STEP®7-Architecture with hard- and software elements.
The SPEED7-Technology offers an architecture which co-ordinates all modules, processors, interfaces, programming software, operating system and firmware.
The SPEED7-Technology is an Open Source platform for all automation solutions and based on a concept, started in 1996 by the company PROFICHIP, which researched dedicated ASICs for digital and analog I/O-Periphery. In 1997 further components followed for fieldbus communication and special ASIC´s for CANopen and Profibus-DP.
The PLC 7000-Chip is a completely unique Native Code Processor for STEP®7 from Siemens in Open Source Technology. The target for the research into the processor was to be able to execute user instructions for systems S7-300 and S7-400 from Siemens in a very short time. This allows the system integrator an extremely short program cyle time (see our Benchmark for examples).
A second and also very important maxim for the processor development was to reach the target speed benefit with the least possible power loss, therefore enabling a system without any need for ventilation in hard industrial environments.
The SPEED7 user also has an internal 12Mbit/s MPI-Interface which allows a very easy On-Board network integration.
The SPEED7-Architecture fits seamless in the ARM9 Technology. The integration of Ethernet-TCP/OP communication and other Interface Modules via the firmware of the ARM9-Processor is very simple.
In this case, the system integrator enjoys a high degree of flexibility in their building set.
Besides the hardware components, there are also many software modules available. In particular, the well established STEP®7 developement package from Siemens and a license free RTOS which offers the developer an ideal platform for a fast project realisation.
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