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The Ricoh MV715 combines the functions of a 400x400 dpi copier with zoom and edit functions, a versatile FAX machine, and a 300 dpi printer.
The MV715 uses the AMD 29000 version of C EXECUTIVE. The multitasking features of C EXECUTIVE are required for implementing the multiple simultaneous functions of the MV715. All three functions - copying, printing, and FAXing - can be used simultaneously.
The HETE spacecraft was designed by AeroAstro Corp. of Herndon, VA, for launch in October, 1996. Unfortunately, the satellite was lost when the launch vehicle hatch door failed to open when orbit was attained. The satellite turned on as scheduled, but soon expired without solar panel deployment. A replacement satellite, HETE-2, is now scheduled for launch in 2000. The above image shows the satellite under construction in the factory clean room. The scientific mission of the High Energy Transient Explorer is to detect and locate the sources of gamma ray bursts. The spacecraft will, upon detection of a gamma ray burst, perform real-time correlation and image processing using a gamma ray instrument, two x-ray cameras, and four high-resolution ultra-violet cameras. The results will be broadcast to ground stations so that observatories world-wide can simultaneously monitor the sources of the gamma rays.
The HETE spacecraft employed four Inmos transputers, each using C EXECUTIVE. These four computers perform the real-time control of the spacecraft and its applications. Development of the scientific applications was directed by the Center for Space Research at M.I.T., which coordinated additional development centers in Japan and France.
This is the first of two satellites being designed by AeroAstro. The second project, TERRIERS, is a tomographic mapping mission, coordinated by Boston University. This spacecraft will use the same C EXECUTIVE and four transputer base platform. TERRIERS is scheduled to be launched in the Summer of 1997.
C EXECUTIVE was also used in the GPS/MET experiment, launched in April, 1995, using a Pegasus launch vehicle from Orbital Sciences shown below.
This project used the 29000 version of the JMI kernel in a GPS receiver in orbit. Using techniques perfected over many years during interplanetary missions, JPL developed the application code to measure the atmosphere's temperature, pressure, and density. The satellite, in orbit at 466 miles, directly measures the signal from the 24 GPS transmitters in orbit. By measuring signal propagation delay, as the receiver and transmitter go over the horizon relative to each other, the characteristics of the atmosphere can be derived.
This diagram shows an exaggeration of the refractive effect for a GPS beam traveling through the earth's atmosphere from transmitter (right) to a receiver (left) both based in space. If the atmosphere had only two uniform layers, differing in refractivity from each other, the beam would bend as it crossed each interface. The actual bending occurs in a continuous manner.
GPS/MET is a prototype for a planned future network of 100 satellites which will provide world-wide weather coverage. Presently, lack of such information over large ocean areas wastes billions of dollars in airline fuel costs alone.
The GPS receiver was based on an Allen Osborne Associates product, originally designed by JPL and Allen Osborne and produced in a variety of land and marine versions, all using the 29000 version of C EXECUTIVE.
C EXECUTIVE is also used in another satellite. Kayser-Threde designed and built a communication satellite using the transputer version of C EXECUTIVE. Six nations were involved: an American real-time kernel from JMI; a British microprocessor from Inmos, which is now part of the French company, CSF-Thompson; Kayser-Threde is a German company; the satellite is operated by an Italian communications company; and the satellite was launched on a Russian rocket in June, 1993.
The A7000 provides secure cryptographic protection for ATM, EFT/POS, corporate banking, and other high financial value communications. The A7000 performs PIN processing, message authentication, data encryption, automated cryptographic key management, VISA Unique Key Per Transaction processing, and VISA/MasterCard validation.
The A7000 uses the R3000 version of C EXECUTIVE, which manages all hardware resources, handles all exception processing, and provides common functions including I/O, data conversion, encryption/decryption, etc., for multiple applications. The customer (bank or other financial institution) can develop custom applications and perform secure download of the applications.
This is a sample output from the IRIS 3000 Series of continuous color ink jet printers. The limitations of digitizing for this web page do disservice to the original. It is difficult for the average person to distinguish the original output print from a photograph. Interested parties may contact IRIS Graphics in Bedford, MA.
The IRIS 3000 Series printers provide digital-quality prints using unique ink jet technology. Prints up to 34 x 44 inches, either single images or multiple images, can be made. Four ink jets form variable sized color dots, each dot composed of from 1 to 31 microscopic droplets of ink.
The 3000 Series has used both the 68XXX and 80386/486 versions of C EXECUTIVE. This is one of many examples of volume embedded products using multiple CPU versions of C EXECUTIVE.
Dataproducts is one of the many licensees of Adobe Systems' PostScript II, which is based on C EXECUTIVE. Dataproducts and Adobe ported C EXECUTIVE to the Weitek 8200 processor for this particular printer. PostScript II is available on many different CPU architectures supported by JMI, including 29000, 68XXX, R3000/R4000, i960, SPARC, and PowerPC.
Data General announced its new Data Genie in May, 1995. This generic PDA, based on the SH7000 version of C EXECUTIVE, is customized by Value Added Resellers who design specific applications, such as retail inventory, forestry management, and medical point of care devices. The Data Genie also uses CE-DOSFILE in conjunction with a flash file system from Datalight.
The 'Point of Care' product from Meditech weighs 14oz., has 512KB of memory for up to 20 patients, and can be used for up to 100 hours on 4 AA batteries. Nurses and other medical personnel can visit patients throughout a hospital, at nursing homes, or at the patient's home, record new patient information, access various medical records, and then transfer the recorded data to the central HCIS (Health Care Information System) computer system.
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The MICROMAX Management Station from Leeds & Northrup is the central component in the MICROMAX Process Management Center. This product line can be configured in a wide variety of systems tailored to specific customer requirements. The system provides data acquisition, loop and logic control, and supervisory configuration and control for both batch and continuous processes. The station includes a CRT, multiple serial ports, data storage, Ethernet, printer, and digital I/O. The MICROMAX Management Station was originally implemented using the National Semiconductor 32000 version of C EXECUTIVE. The product was subsequently reimplemented using the Intel 80386 version of JMI's kernel.
The CHECKTRONIC Printing System from Check Technology Corporation provides a high volume printing system for bank checks and similar documents. The system, using the 80186 version of C EXECUTIVE, provides multiple paper input hoppers, multiple font selection, storage for up to 300 logos, a 300Dpi print engine, four different host communication interfaces, and audit and password functions.
The ADS 48 POS Terminal from ADS Anker uses the 8086 version of JMI's kernel. The terminal includes a keyboard, up to 1MB of RAM, integrated 3.5" disk, 40 character display, interfaces for printers, scanners, card readers, and EFT. ADS Anker and Siemens, both of whom use C EXECUTIVE for POS terminals, together supply over half of such terminals in Germany.
The ADS system can be used in a hierarchical fashion, with a UNIX workstation in the customer's central office, a local management station using C EXECUTIVE in each store manager's office, and the low end POS terminal also using C EXECUTIVE. The POS terminal can be configured to provide comprehensive functions, including department options, salesperson options, 99 payment modes, flexible print format options, logging, hierarchical linked reports, and many other features required by modern retail operations.
The SERIES 7500 Central Station provides remote viewing and recording from multiple bedside patient monitors. With a Switch Matrix Unit (SMU), up to 16 beds and 6 displays can be controlled. The 7500 Central Station and the bedside Series 7000 unit are examples of many patient monitoring products from Marquette Electronics using the 68XXX versions of C EXECUTIVE.
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Perkin-Elmer has been using JMI's kernel since 1982 in over a dozen different scientific chromatography instruments used in industrial, investigative, and related fields. Employing 68XXX processors, the typical instrument provides data acquisition, operator interface, calculation and analysis functions, and comprehensive reports.
The PLE 6160 from AEG Electrocom provides Intelligent Character Recognition for a variety of data entry applications. Employing six microprocessors, the PLE 6160 recognizes and digitizes 200 characters per second. C EXECUTIVE is used on each of the five AMD 29000 processors and the Texas Instruments 34020 Graphics Processor. Postal sorting and bank check signature recognition are two of the major applications for the PLE 6160. Over 80% of the banks in Germany use check clearing systems employing the PLE 6160.
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Allen Osborne Associates initially used the 29000 version of C EXECUTIVE for their range of GPS receiver products. These include the ICS-4000Z TurboRogue Ionospheric Calibration System, which can track up to eight satellites, and which provides precision measurements of the electron content of the ionosphere, and the GPS-S, a hand-held unit. One of Allen Osborne's GPS receivers was launched aboard the GPS/MET satellite. Allen Osborne is now using the PowerPC version of C EXECUTIVE.
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