Schneider Automation Gmbh

Thomas Godicke

Jean-Jacques Genin

Giovanni Ianni

An automation equipment includes a system unit and a driver. The system unit has at least one memory including a real time operating unit and an application program unit that performs monitoring or control functions in an automation application. The driver is directly included in the system unit and is configured to connect to a TCP/IP network without going through a back panel bus. The operating unit of the system unit includes a communications management module configured to communicate to the TCP/IP network, and a control task unit responsible for controlling execution of the communications management module, the control task unit being directly connected to the communications management module to avoid disturbing an operation of the application program unit.

Automation equipment connected to a TCP/IP network

A process and system for updating an operating system for an information processing device via a console link or mass memory. The information processing device including a power supply with an energy reserve, a microprocessor, an erasable flash EPROM type memory, a backed up RAM memory, and a device for detecting main power supply failures. When making an update, the existing operating system transfers a boot program into the backed up RAM, then executes this boot program stored in RAM, this boot program stored in RAM erasing the Flash EPROM memory and then loading the new operating system into the Flash EPROM from the console link or the mass memory.

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Valbonne, France

Thomas Godicke