On 12/14/06, William Couture <bcouture@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> The company I work for (Athena Controls) is thinking of advertising a new
> product in Embedded magazine.
>
> My boss is asking for my opinions, and I'd like to pick your collective brains.
>
> The product (though not the proposed ad) can be seen at
>   http://www.picemulator.com/emc40.pdf
> (135K) and is designed as a 4 zone temperature controller.
>
> They also want to market it as a more general purpose OEM embedded
> controller.
>
> So, the questions are:
>   * If you were going to use this as an embedded controller, what would
>     you like to see in terms of programming / libraries?  What language(s)
>     would you want supported?
>
>   * What hardware features are particularly appealing?  What does it lack?
>
>   * If the above board did not fit your requirements, would you consider using
>     Athena Controls to design your controller?  And what sort of volume would
>     you be considering?
>
>   * Would you see an advantage of a controller like this over using a PLC?
>
>   * Other comments?

 At a first look, this controller is more like an evaluation board, seems huge.
For a comparison take a look to a romanian product:
http://www.datronix.ro/dcx130E.htm

>
> Feel free to ask questions, I'll try to provide answers.
>
> Thanks,
>   Bill
>
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