Matrikon Flex
Software Development Toolkit (SDK)
The Matrikon Flex OPC UA SDK is the first high-performance developer toolkit that
quickly and easily enables any application, regardless of size, with OPC UA. It
is intended for use by discrete and process industry manufacturers, commercial customers,
and automation OEMs that need to implement native data connectivity that is:
- Based on a secure open standard
- Preserves rich data context
- Hardware platform-independent
- Operating system (OS)-agnostic
- Scalable for use in embedded and personal computer (PC) environments
- Flexible enough to facilitate communications between devices (machine to machine
or M2M) and between applications on the shop floor, office premises, and/or the
enterprise cloud.
The Matrikon Flex SDK is the only toolkit that delivers on all of these requirements—from
small, embedded chips to enterprise servers
Industry’s Most Advanced Features
- FLASH-based or RAM-based address space, which is fully reconfigurable on-the-fly
- Single or multi-threaded implementation
- Support for an arbitrary number of sessions, subscriptions, monitored items and
address space nodes that is solely dependent on available target resources
- Advanced, proprietary, embedded first-principles architecture
- No heap-based memory allocation for embedded applications to ensure maximum reliability
- Works with all OSs, (e.g., Embedded Linux, RTOSs, Windows, Linux, Android, iOS,
etc.) or no OS at all.
Benefits of Matrikon OPC UA SDK
- Use the same API across all processor sizes and operating systems
- Eliminate costly and time-consuming configuration of register-based data
- Enable monitoring from any OPC UA Client
- Eliminate the need for customers to marshal data through third-party systems
- Utilize C++ linkable multiplatform software that runs on any OS, RTOS or even bare-metal
system
- Implement the smallest RAM footprint
Typical Applications
- Programmable Logic Controllers (PLC)
- Cloud enable software (SaaS)
- Sensors and Actuators
- Gateway Products for Protocol Translation
- Building Automation Controllers
- Drives and Servo-Amplifiers
- Smart Meters
Evaluation kits:
Implement OPC UA connectivity across products and platforms with a single fully
scalable toolkit, download the evaluation kit:
Server
>Matrikon Flex OPC UA SDK - Server Demo Kit for Windows - download here
>Matrikon Flex OPC UA SDK - Server Demo Kit for Linux - download here
Client
>Matrikon Flex OPC UA SDK - Client Demo Kit for Windows - download here
>Matrikon Flex OPC UA SDK - Client Demo Kit for Linux - download here
Example Target Hardware
The fasaLINK OPC UA Server Module pictured is a reference design. The module is
based on a 72MHz ARM Cortex-M3 microcontroller that costs less than $5. The reference
design has been certified as compliant by the OPC Foundation.
The MOXA IA240 RISC-based Industrial Computer which is based on an ARM9 with 64MB
RAM and 16MB flash.
The MatrikonOPC Advantage
MatrikonOPC, the leader in OPC technology provides significant value to the manufacturing
space. Now, MatrikonOPC extends data connectivity offering from the desktop down
to the micro-controller level enabled by OPC UA. OPC UA Embedded technology complements
MatrikonOPC’s existing portfolio, and positions MatrikonOPC at the fore front of
the emerging device to enterprise open data connectivity market. The community of
partners we currently work with include:
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