Newsgroups: comp.robotics
Subject: Need info on ISP products
From: robin.hunziker@mecheng.fullfeed.com (Robin Hunziker)
Path: brunix!cat.cis.Brown.EDU!noc.near.net!paperboy.wellfleet.com!news-feed-1.peachnet.edu!news.duke.edu!MathWorks.Com!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!howland.reston.ans.net!spool.mu.edu!uwm.edu!daffy!uwvax!gorgon!fullfeed!mecheng!robin.hunziker
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <af.5280.33.0NAF7D11@mecheng.fullfeed.com>
Date: Tue, 17 May 94 07:04:00 -0600
Organization: MechEng / American Society of Mechanical Engineers
Lines: 78

CA283@rcum>
  Newsgroup: sci.engr.control
  Organization: University of Maribor, Slovenia

CADoes anybody know, if there are already some commercialy available
  ISP (InterOperable Systems Project) products on the market. We are
  mainly interested in ISP PC boards and microcontroller (80C166
  and/or 8051) boards with appropriate software tools.

CAMatej CAF
  University of Maribor, Slovenia
  E-mail caf@uni-mb.si

Per the June/July 1993 issue of ISP's FieldTalk:
  ...
  All the components making up the ISP network use FIND-1, the ISP
  chip from Yokogawa.  At the end of May, the ISP 80C51 and 68HC11
  evaluation boards from the Forschungszentrum Informatik (FZI)
  developed for TMG i-tec will be available with the self-secure bus
  physics in accordance with IEC 1158-2, and will be delivered to all
  enterprises who want to develop their own ISP products.
  ...
  Dr. Marcus Adams
  TMG i-tec GmbH
  Karlsruhe Vincenz-PrieBnitz-Strasse 1
  D-76131 Karlsruhe, Germany
  Telephone +49-721-96410-0
  Fax       +49-721-96410-10

Note that the ISP members demo products at the Italian BIAS shows.
Other European vendors of ISP development tools is:

  Softing GmbH
  Dingolfinger Str. 2
  81673 Munchen, Germany
  contact: Hans Werner Auberg
  Telephone +49-89-413-004-0
  Fax       +49-89-49-10-18

(Softing also makes a bunch of CAN & Bitbus tools.  You might ask them
about DeviceNet which Allen-Bradley recently developed and placed in the
public domain.  Its based on CAN and may be more applicable to low-level
communication than ISP or WorldFIP.)  Note that in the telephone and fax
numbers above, 49 is Germany's country code and 89 is Munich's
(Munchen's) city code.  This may apply only to US callers.

  SMAR GmbH
  Robert-Koch-Strasse 35
  55129 Mainz, Germany
  Telephone (6131) 58-20-37
  Fax       (6131) 58-22-49

In the U.S., Ship Star Associates provides ISP and WorldFIP tools,
chips, training, etc.  Bob Crowder can be reached on internet via MCI
Mail at

  2892306@mcimail.com

In case you're interested in more information regarding DeviceNet, you
can contact:

  DeviceNet Development Team
  Automation Group
  Allen-Bradley
  747 Alpha Drive
  Highland Heights, OH 44143-2195  U.S.A.
  Telephone 216-646-5000 or 800/228-3261
  Fax       216-646-3075 or 800/500-0329
  Telex     241146
  internet  bracket@odin.cle.ab.com

A European DeviceNet contact is:

  Philippe Le Bouc
  Paris, France
  Telephone 33 130 67 72 00
  Fax       33 134 65 32 33

