Artila Electronics Aport-214PG C-programmable device server

Artila Electronics has launched the Aport-214PG FreeRTOS programmable device server. The device is powered by a 32-bit Atmel SAM4E16E 120 MHz Arm Cortex-M4 processor, 256 KB SRAM, 3 MB Flash and the FreeRTOS real-time operating system. It features a 10/100 MHz Ethernet port, two RS-485 ports, four isolated digital input channels, two relay output channels and a microSD socket.

The C-programmable device is shipped with a FreeRTOS+lwIP board support package (BSP), device manager utility and example programs. Users can download the toolchain, Atmel Studio, from the Atmel website. Web configuration and I/O controls are available in the Aport-214PG application development kit. The device manager utility featuring device discovery, network configuration, the user’s web page and firmware upload is also included, which makes programming easy.

The role of a programmable device server is to proactively poll the serial devices and then buffer the data for an Ethernet-based master’s inquiry or push the data to the server via MQTT.