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Dear RTCU User,
Another year is approaching the end - a very tough year due
to the deep global financial crisis, that has been and is still
with us. In the M2M business the situation
seems to improve, and in the past 2 months we have been
challenged to cope with the increase in demand for our products.
We hope, that this positive trend continues into 2010 for the
benefit of our partners, customers and suppliers!
As the financial crisis impacted our business this year, we are
even prouder once again to receive the prestigious
A AA
(Triple-A) credit rating, the highest obtainable from
D&B. Only
approximately 2% of all Danish companies are currently able to
maintain the
AAA
rating!
Read more here!
Receiving the
A AA
(Triple-A) in the current financial situation combined with the
fact, that we have been in the business for almost 10 years makes
the clear and strong statement, that
Logic IO is a strong, reliable and trustworthy partner for
now and the future.
This newsletter announces major software releases, as the
X32-firmware for the MX2i and DX4 Series are now released in version 2.00. The RTCU IDE is released in
version 5.50.
The combined features of these releases are quite astonishing
and include: SMTP support, up to 2.5 times more code-space,
3.5 times more data-space and 25% more voice memory!!
This huge boost in memory capacity does NOT even
require a new more expensive unit - just a simple and free firmware upgrade
and of course the new (and free!) RTCU IDE V5.50.
This is the Seasonal present of the year from Logic IO!
Please get even more excited by continuing to read all the details
below...
Season's
Greetings and a Happy New Year
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...from the Logic IO Team!
**
Vacation Notice **
Logic IO will be closed
from December 23, 2009 until January 3, 2010
(both days
included).
During this period support will be limited and only available
through email.
Firmware V2.00 for the RTCU MX2i / DX4 Series
This is a major release of the X32-firmware with exciting news such as
support for SMTP alllowing the application to send e-mails with
attachment directly to your in-box!
There is also support for the advanced X32 compilation mode available in
the new RTCU IDE 5.50. This feature is
offering up to 2.5 times more code-space for REALLY HUGE VPL
programs by using part of the Voice memory. In the X32 compilation mode
there will also be an increase of the data-space (RAM) available
to the VPL program of astonishing 3.5 times -- and if this is not
enough, there is additionally 25% voice memory available.
The full list of news:
Enhancements:
- X32
mode with user defined VPL/Voice memory ratio yielding a 2.5X
increase in code-space!
- ...dramatic increase of 3.5X in VPL data-space (RAM) and
a +25%
increase in
Voice memory!
- Full SMTP support.
It is possible with this exciting feature to send emails with attachment
directly from the
unit!
- I/O
Extension and MODBUS support for the MX2i Series.
- Full
support for two I/O Extension nets operating seperately as
master/slave.
- ID-Button
functionality (owiButtonWriteData/owiButtonReadData) to
Read/Write to ID-Buttons!
- Increased stability and performance when using the 1-Wire functionality.
Function (gsmSendFlashSMS) to send
a
'flash' SMS message appearing immediately
on receivers mobile-phone.
Function (gwTimeGet) to get
Local /
UTC time from the
GPRS Gateway time-synchonization service.
Number of
user-defined characters in displayDefineChar increased to
32.
+ other
minor enhancements.
Bug Fixes:
- Power
management on the DX4 did not work correctly in relation to
the
dedicated RS485 channel.
- navDeviceSerial
could return negative number. Now changed to return a
string.
- navEtaAutoSet
did not work correctly with no active stops.
- navMessageReplyReceive
returned wrong timestamp.
- GPRS recovery
boot #1 after prolonged connection problems to network.
- Seldom case
of prolonged time for GPRS session establishment in some
networks.
- Powering up
the GSM-module on the DX4 Series could in special cases
take
several minutes to finish.
- gsmGetProvider
may return 0, even that gsmConnected returns TRUE.
- UDP/IP
functions not working.
-
+
other minor bug-fixes.
Most of the above features also requires the installation of
the new RTCU IDE 5.50.
Please download from
www.logicio.com
RTCU IDE V5.50
This is a major release of the RTCU IDE with exciting news such as an
advanced X32 compilation mode giving up to 2.5 times more
code-space for REALLY HUGE VPL programs by using part of the
Voice memory. In the X32 compilation mode there will be an
increase of the data-space (RAM) available for to the VPL
program of astonishing 3.5 times -- and if this is not enough,
there is additionally 25% voice memory available.
All this is available on ANY X32 based unit with only a firmware
upgrade to V2.00 and the installation of the new RTCU IDE 5.50!!
Another major new feature is the support for passing reference
parameters to a FUNCTION. Using the new keyword ACCESS as
an attribute to VAR_INPUT variables, it is possible to return an
arbitrary number of parameters back to the caller of the function.
The full list of news:
General Enhancements:
- X32
mode with user defined VPL/Voice memory ratio yielding a 2.5X
increase in code-space!
- ...dramatic increase of 3.5X in VPL data-space (RAM) and
a +25%
increase in
Voice memory!
- Compiler support for passing reference parameters to a
FUNCTION with
new ACCESS keyword.
- Two
I/O Extension Nets can be configured.
- SMTP
functions included in Help and Wizard.
- Functions
added to Help and Wizard: gsmSendFlashSMS, gwTimeGet,
owiButtonWriteData and owiButtonReadData.
- New
improved Garmin Navigation sample project.
- Improved
installation, including the Microsoft Visual C++ 2005
Redistributable Package being automatically installed.
- Connect
to unit using GPRS Gateway now includes drop-down with last
entries used.
- Keyboard
Accelerator table included in the on-line help.
- New
SMTP - Tank Monitoring - sample project included in
installation.
- +
other minor improvements.
Simulator Enhancements:
- gwTimeGet
support.
- Full support for the new SMTP functions.
- gsmSendFlashSMS
support.
- +
other minor enhancements.
Bugs which have been fixed in this
release:
-
Restart
of Simulator with serial port in use failed.
-
Simulator:
navMessageSend returned -2, when using user replies.
-
Simulator:
Creation of 2GB SD-CARD not possible.
-
Projects
with I/O Extensions could sometimes be created in a non-X32
project.
-
Compiler:
Access of data-space > 64 KB generated incorrect code.
-
Voice
recorder using low-quality recording did not work on all
sound-cards.
-
+
other minor bug-fixes.
Many of the above features also requires upgrade to the new
X32-firmware V2.00.
By using the new ACCESS
attribute in a function it is possible to pass a parameter
by reference. The standard parameters pass method is by
value.
When a parameter is passed by value, a copy of the parameter is
made. Therefore, changes made to the formal parameter by the called
function is not possible and will therefore have no effect on the
corresponding actual parameter.
When a parameter is passed by reference, conceptually, the actual
parameter itself is passed (and just given a new name -- the name of the
corresponding parameter). Therefore, any changes made to the formal
parameter do affect the actual parameter. For example:
FUNCTION test;
VAR_INPUT
a : ACCESS INT;
END_VAR;
a := a + 1;
END_FUNCTION;
VAR
x : INT := 10;
END_VAR;
test(a:=x);
In this example 'test's parameter is passed by reference by the use of
the ACCESS attribute. Therefore, the assignment to 'a' in 'test'
is actually changing the variable 'x', so the value of 'x' after the
function call will be 11.
It is even possible to pass a STRUCT_BLOCK to a function using
the ACCESS attribute. For additional information please refer to
the RTCU IDE documentation.
The ACCESS attribute works on ALL UNITS (except SMALL memory
models) and with any firmware version.
Please download from
www.logicio.com
RTCU Communication Support Package (CSP) V1.20
The latest release of the RTCU Communication Support Package V1.20
includes the following enhancements:
Enhancements:
-
Support for X32 compiled
projects with increased memory and
user
defined code-space / voice ratio. -
The target ICP004 (DX4) was
missing in past H files.
-
Country code with the format +XX
establishing a CSD session, was
fixed to work.
The RTCU CSP V1.20 is used in the RTCU
IDE V5.50.
Please download from
www.logicio.com |
