Ontario – Ottawa – Nepean
Corporation
www.akamina.com
Ontario
Ottawa
Nepean
Corporation
active
Akamina develops and manufactures advanced sensor instruments for use in the study and research of water. Our AWP-24 Wave Height Gauge is an instrument for the measurement of wave heights and water levels. It measures capacitance using purely digital techniques.
Akamina Technologies Inc. also specializes in the development of custom real-time, embedded software. Our main focus is on the set up and use of open source tools to develop software to run on the Linux operating system. Our services span the range from system-wide consulting to device driver development to high-level application software development.
Country of Ownership: Canada
Year Established: 2004
Exporting: Yes
Primary Industry (NAICS): 334512 - Measuring, Medical and Controlling Devices Manufacturing
Alternate Industries (NAICS): 541510 - Computer Systems Design and Related Services
Primary Business Activity: Manufacturer / Processor / Producer
Total Sales ($CDN): $200,000 to $499,999
Export Sales ($CDN): $1 to $99,999
Number of Employees: 3
Services:
Custom embedded software development, Linux and open source software
Products:
Wave height gauge
Technology:
Wave Height Height Gauge
- ARM7 micro-controller
Embedded Software: - RTOS: LINUX,
- Device Drivers for Linux,
Embedded Software
+ RTOS: Linux, uClinux, RTAI, LXRT, VxWorks, pSOS, OSE, QNX, .VRTX, AIX, Chorus, Windows CE
+ Device drivers for Linux, VxWorks, pSOS and OSE
+ Device drivers for ASICs, PLDs, Network processors, Framers, ...
+ Implementation of protocol stacks
+ Boot loader software
Development Platforms
+ Linux and UNIX
+ Windows/NT
+ FreeBSD
Development Tools
+ Integrated Development Environment: Eclipse, Tornado, Visual Studio
+ Rational Products: Rose, Rose Real Time, PurifyPlus,
. PureCoverage, ClearCase, ClearQuest
+ Version Control Software: Subversion, RCS/SCCS/CVS, BitKeeper
+ Other Tools: SNiFF+, Tcl/Tk, Perl, Expect, Lint, Splint
+ Compliers: gnu C/C++, Microtec, Green Hills
+ Debugging tools: gdb, BDM, visionICE, visionCLICK, SingleStep
Open Source Software
Integration of open source software to create an optimized embedded, run-time environment including: + Linux and RTAI
+ Linux utilities and shell
+ Command line interface (libcli)
+ Login
+ telnet
+ C run-time library (glibc, uClibc)
+ bootloader
+ openSSH, openSSL
Processors
+ Motorola PowerPC(405, 603, 740, 852, 860, 8260), 68k, Coldfire,
. ARM, Dragonball
+ Intel x86, MIPS, ARM, strongARM, Xscale, i960
+ TMS320Cxxx, ADSP-21000
+ Intel IXP425 network processor
Network Management
+ Standards and protocols: SNMP, TL1, Cisco CLI
+ MIB definitions and implementations on network equipment
+ Web-based network management solutions
+ Distributed Architectures: CORBA
+ Development Platforms: HP OpenView, ILOG Views
IP and Data Networking
+ Standards and protocols: ATM, Frame Relay, TCP/IP, OSI,
. IEEE802.3/10Base-T/100Base-T, Gigabit Ethernet, POS, PPP
+ Applications: ATM cell forwarding, IP forwarding over POS, MPLS
. over POS, IP forwarding over Ethernet, MPLS over Ethernet, VPN,
. VoIP, QoS
+ TCP/IP stacks
Optical Networks
+ Standards and protocols: SONET, SDH, POS, RPR, GMPLS, TL1
+ Applications: Linear, Ring, DWDM, ASON, Optical Switching
+ Optical Ethernet
+ OAM - P (Operations, Administration, Maintenance and
. Provisioning)
+ User Interface (TL1 / CLI / WebUI)
+ Photonics (amplifiers - amplifier control)
Sector:
Distribution of Employees
Ottawa, Ontario
Key / Major Clients: National Research Council Canada,
Engineers, scientists and Students involved in wave modeling and research,
Universities and Research Institutes with wave facilities
Success Stories: Akamina is marketing and selling the AWP-24 to customers in North America, Asia and Europe.
pSOS to Real-Time Linux Conversion
Our work on this project for the National Research Council involved the migration of an existing VMEbus control system from obsolete hardware and pSOS to modern hardware and real-time Linux configured for hard real-time. Our deliverables included: + Hardware selection (bus standard, processor board, analog I/O,
digital I/O, chassis)
+ recommendations for the system software: development
environment, real-time operating system and tools
+ redesign of the task-based, flat address space used by pSOS
to Linux processes in user space and kernel space
+ device driver development for analogue and digital I/O hardware
+ development of a software upgrade strategy
+ coding, integration and final commissioning
+ documentation and support
The control system represents a system with hard real-time constraints. The investigation into the suitability of Linux for the project included measuring interrupt and context-switch latencies for various possible Linux kernels and sub-kernels. The options considered include using standard Linux distributions (2.4.27 and 2.6.8) as well as using RTAI and LXRT with the Linux 2.4 kernel. The technique used to measure latency and the results are documented in the whitepaper available on our website.
Laurich Peter
Laurich Peter Hermann
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