November, 2004
IN THIS ISSUE:
Welcome to Connected. Our newsletter is designed to keep you informed about our expanding serial communication solutions for the Industrial and Embedded PC market, including CompactPCI, PC/104, PC/104-Plus, PCI, and ISA bus compatible boards, and external Ethernet-to-serial and USB-to-serial devices. Your feedback is always welcome!
Network enable legacy serial peripherals with an
Ethernet-to-serial device
Blue Heat/Net can "upgrade" older equipment
What's the quickest and
most cost effective way to upgrade legacy serial equipment such as point-of-sale devices, monitoring equipment,
and process controllers? Connect them to your IP-based Local Area Network (LAN). Whether it's a factory floor or a
retail floor, the ability to access information and monitor equipment from any location in real time is vital to
the efficiency of today's businesses. 
Networking your existing serial devices protects your hardware and software investment while allowing you to monitor, manage and share your connected equipment over your local network and the internet. An Ethernet-to-serial device like the Blue Heat/Net translates between the disparate communication modes, so you can connect practically any RS-232 or RS-422/485 serial device to your network.
Blue Heat/Net and Manufacturing Automation
Once connected to the Blue Heat/Net,
you can remotely control your serial peripherals from any work station connected to your Ethernet Local
Area Network (LAN), or from a Wide Area Network (WAN). This eliminates the need for a dedicated PC, cutting
equipment expenses, space usage and eliminating the time required to maintain and collect information from individual
workstations. The Blue Heat/Net can be configured and controlled via serial interface, or remotely via Telnet or
web-based HTTP.
The Blue Heat/Net includes an auto-sensing 10Base-T, 100Base-TX LAN interface, and can achieve data speeds up to
460.8 Kbps per port. Each port is independently configurable.
Customizing the Blue Heat/Net is a breeze. Based on the uClinux embedded operating system, the Blue Heat/Net offers programmers a familiar Linux API. (Ask about our Software Development Kit.) You can create customized protocols and download them directly to the on-board Flash memory.
Click here to read the specification sheet for Blue Heat/Net.
ColdFire CPU featuring 16MB SDRAM, 2MB Flash, and quad UARTs.
Built on the uClinux embedded operating system, enabling the development of customized protocols.
Four or eight RS-232/422/485 ports, independent port configuration with data bits of 5, 6, 7 or 8; stop bits of 1, 1.5 or 2, with or without parity.
Data transfer speeds to 230.4 for RS-232 models to 460.8 Kbps for RS-422/485.
Easy
configuration and control over a serial interface or dynamically using Telnet
or web-based HTTP.
DB-9 and RJ-45 models.
Click here for the Blue Heat/Net product page.
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no-obligation quote or information about any of our products.
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Electronica
Embedded, November 9-12, Munich
RTECC,
November 16 and 18, Vancouver and Seattle, December 7 and 9, Atlanta and Raleigh.
SPS/IPC/DRIVES Electric Automation Systems and Components,
November 23-25, Nuremberg
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