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KPA Automation softPLC 1.2 RC released

22 Jun. 2022

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KPA Automation softPLC 1.1 released

08 Jun. 2022

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KPA EtherCAT Master 2.4 for Windows released

25 May 2022

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KPA EtherCAT Studio 1.12 released

23 May 2022

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KPA EtherCAT Studio 2.10 released

28 Apr. 2022

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KPA Automation 4.3 released

12 Apr. 2022

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KPA EtherCAT Master 2.4 for Windows, INtime released

18 Feb. 2022

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KPA EtherCAT Master 1.6 for RTX64 released

18 Feb. 2022

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KPA EtherCAT Master 1.6 for Windows, INtime released

24 Dec. 2021

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Office Holiday Schedule 2021

21 Dec. 2021

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koenig-pa GmbH joined PROFIBUS and PROFINET International

20 Dec. 2021

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KPA EtherCAT Master 1.6 for RTX64 released

17 Dec. 2021

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KPA EtherCAT Master 1.6 for VxWorks released

03 Dec. 2021

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KPA EtherCAT Master 2.4 for FreeRTOS released

03 Dec. 2021

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KPA Automation softPLC 1.1 released

26 Nov. 2021

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KPA EtherCAT Studio 2.10 released

25 Nov. 2021

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KPA EtherCAT Master 2.4 for FreeRTOS released

22 Nov. 2021

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KPA Automation 4.3 released

29 Sep. 2021

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KPA EtherCAT Master 2.4 for Linux-RT released

27 Sep. 2021

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KPA EtherCAT Studio 1.12 released

09 Sep. 2021

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KPA EtherCAT Master 1.6 for INtime released

06 Aug. 2021

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KPA Automation 4.3 released

29 Jul. 2021

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KPA Automation 4.3 released

27 May 2021

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KPA Automation 4.2 released

12 Feb. 2021

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KPA EtherCAT Master 1.6 for Windows, RTX64, INtime, Linux, QNX released

21 Jan. 2021

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KPA EtherCAT Master 2.4 for Windows released

1 Oct. 2020

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KPA Automation 4.2 released

09 June 2020

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KPA EtherCAT Master 2.4 for Windows released

26 May 2020

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KPA EtherCAT Master 1.6 for QNX released

06 Apr. 2020

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Support for KPA EtherCAT Master 1.5 will be stopped in January 2021

06 Mar. 2020

From January 11, 2021, koenig-pa will no longer offer updates or technical support for KPA EtherCAT Master 1.5.
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KPA EtherCAT Studio updated

15 Jul. 2019
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koenig-pa GmbH joined the PLCopen

We are pleased to announce that koenig-pa GmbH joined the world-famous PLCopen association in November 2018.
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EtherCAT Master Redundancy

Reliability and fail-safe operation are vital requirements for any industrial automation system. When an unexpected downtime happens, the production owner often suffers considerable losses, so he wants to be sure that his production system is properly protected from various hardware and software failures.

EtherCAT technology is one of the most advanced and high-performance interfaces for communication on the shop level of the factory. Besides great flexibility and high throughput, it offers some basic fault tolerance features to withstand possible hardware failures. The most powerful of these features is the cable redundancy which utilizes physical ring topology to preserve stable bus operation when the ring is actually broken.
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KPA Automation 3.21 released

koenig-pa GmbH released a new version of its cost-effective software platform for creating scalable solutions for factory automation and process control. Improvements in this release include:
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KPA EtherCAT Master Integrated Into EtherCAT PLC Reference Platform

31 Aug. 2012

koenig-pa GmbH has joined its efforts with the partners to deliver complete PLC Reference Platform with integrated support for EtherCAT high-performance industrial network.

The new EtherCAT Programmable Logic Controller (PLC) Reference Platform is targeted to OEMs that require easy-to-use and powerful platform for fast development of industrial control systems. It runs ISaGFAF firmware with integrated KPA EtherCAT Master stack under QNX Neutrino real-time OS on Freescale QoriQ P1 series processor.
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KPA EtherCAT Master was integrated to straton PLC

22 Jan. 2018

COPA-DATA France, well-known developer of software solutions for industrial automation, has integrated KPA EtherCAT Master stack into its straton software PLC development environment. From now, COPA-DATA customers can benefit from using comprehensive and efficient EtherCAT Master driver and EtherCAT configuration and diagnostic tool from koenig-pa GmbH while creating their industrial control systems based on straton PLC solution.

More information on straton 9.2 and other COPA-DATA products can be found on straton web-site. (Link)
KPA EtherCAT Master 1.6 released

21 Nov. 2017

koenig-pa GmbH, a leading supplier of industrial automation solutions and software tools for EtherCAT fieldbus developers, is announcing the release of a new version of KPA EtherCAT Master Stack Development Kit (MDK). KPA Master MDK 1.6 introduces several new features that are important for developing comprehensive and up-to-date tools for process automation and control solutions.
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KPA EtherCAT Master 2.1 released

31 Mar. 2017

OS-less supported
FreeRTOS supported

Master Kits are available through Customer Portal and
by contacting Sales: sales@koenig-pa.de
KPA EtherCAT Studio 1.12 updated

23 Mar. 2017

More details are available through Customer Portal and
by contacting Sales: sales@koenig-pa.de
KPA EtherCAT Master 1.x updated

23 Mar. 2017

INtime 6.2 supported
RTX64 3.0 – updated
RTX64 2014 SP2 – updated
RTX 2012 – updated
VxWorks 7.0 – updated
Xenomai 3.0 – updated

Master Kits are available through Customer Portal and
by contacting Sales: sales@koenig-pa.de
KPA EtherCAT Slave Stack released

01 Feb. 2017

QNX 6.5/6.6 supported
Nios II supported

Slave Stack is available through Customer Portal and
by contacting Sales: sales@koenig-pa.de
High-performance KPA EtherCAT Master on LZ-200 board featuring the Xilinx ZYNQ SoC

01 Nov. 2016

KPA EtherCAT Master is uniquely ported on LZ-200 board to meet the stringent requirements for industrial automation. The LZ-200 board features a Xilinx ZYNQ SoC with dual core ARM Cortex A9 plus FPGA fabric at its heart. The solution provides extremely high-speed EtherCAT cycles (as low as 60 microseconds) with minimal jitter, which makes it ideal for precise device synchronization (i.e. motion control applications). The board accommodates dual EtherCAT ports for redundant cabling and a 1GB Ethernet for TCP/IP connection to KPA EtherCAT Studio configuration and diagnostics tool. The bundle includes the LZ-200 board and KPA Master Development Kit (MDK) for a complete EtherCAT master development solution.

LZ-200 flyer (unknown, 1,238 hits)

Hardware and Master Kit is available through Customer Portal and
by contacting Sales: sales@koenig-pa.de or sales@radictech.com
KPA Automation: software PLC with EtherCAT support released

01 Nov. 2016

koenig-pa GmbH, a provider for SCADA/PLC software and EtherCAT software products, announces integrated KPA Automation and KPA EtherCAT Master Stack solution during SPS IPC Drives 2016 international electronics fair. KPA Automation Control combined with high performance KPA EtherCAT master provide cost effective software PLC solution under INtime, Linux, Windows and other OSes.

KPA Automation and KPA EtherCAT products are available through our Customer Portal and
by contacting Sales: sales@koenig-pa.de
Our continuously updated software products for RTX, RTX64 3.0 and RTX2016 supported

28 Oct. 2016

KPA EtherCAT Master ported to new RTX64 3.0

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Master Development Kits are available through Customer Portal and
by contacting Sales: sales@koenig-pa.de
KPA EtherCAT Slave Stack ported to Texas Instruments Sitara™ MCU under Linux for phyCORE^®-AM335x hardware

10 Oct. 2016

The Texas Instruments’ AM335x family of microprocessors with ultra-low power, and a highly integrated peripheral set. Featuring a Sitara™ ARM^® Cortex™-A8 CPU, the AM335x highlights PRU/ICSS supporting real-time protocol standards such as EtherCAT^®. KPA EtherCAT Slave is now ported to real-time Linux with Ethernet over EtherCAT tunneling and other slave capabilities

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Slave Stack is available through Customer Portal and
by contacting Sales: sales@koenig-pa.de
KPA Motion Library 1.0 for INtime 6 released

10 Oct. 2016

KPA Motion Development Kit is available through Customer Portal and
by contacting Sales: sales@koenig-pa.de
KPA Motion Library 1.0 for Linux 3.x/4.x, Xenomai 3 released

10 Oct. 2016

KPA Motion Development Kit is available through Customer Portal and
by contacting Sales: sales@koenig-pa.de
KPA Motion Library 1.0 for QNX 6.5/QNX 6.6 released

10 Oct. 2016

KPA Motion Development Kit is available through Customer Portal and
by contacting Sales: sales@koenig-pa.de
Our software continuously updated to INtime 6.1 and coming INtime 6.2

30 Sep. 2016

KPA Automation Control combined with high performance KPA EtherCAT Master and KPA Motion provide cost effective software PLC solution under INtime and Windows.

KPA EtherCAT Master Development Kits are available through Customer Portal and
by contacting Sales: sales@koenig-pa.de
High performance KPA EtherCAT Master on LZ-200 featuring Xilinx Zynq FPGA

01 Sep. 2016

KPA EtherCAT Master on LZ-200 hardware with Xilinx Zynq FPGA to meet the rigorous timing requirements for industrial redundancy automation, the reference solution delivers EtherCAT cycle times of 50 microsecond cycles with an extremely low jitter rate for precise device synchronization.

LZ-200 flyer (unknown, 1,463 hits)

Hardware and Master Kit is available through Customer Portal and
by contacting Sales: sales@koenig-pa.de or bradjabi@radictech.com
KPA EtherCAT Slave Stack ported to xPC Target / MATLAB 2015

01 Aug. 2016

KPA EtherCAT Slave is now ported to the MathWorks xPC Target / MATLAB 2015

Slave Stack is available through Customer Portal and
by contacting Sales: sales@koenig-pa.de
KPA EtherCAT Slave Stack ported to Texas Instruments C2000 MCU

25 July 2016

KPA EtherCAT Slave is now ported to the Texas Instruments’ C2000 MCU family of microprocessors supporting real-time protocol standards such as EtherCAT^®.

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Slave Stack is available through Customer Portal and
by contacting Sales: sales@koenig-pa.de
Mentor Graphics Nucleus RTOS Advances KPA EtherCAT Master Real-Time Performance for Industrial Automation

15 Feb. 2016

Mentor Graphics Corporation (NASDAQ: MENT) announced EtherCAT Master protocol support for the Mentor^® Embedded Nucleus^® real-time operating system (RTOS) targeting high-performance, next-generation industrial automation devices. The Nucleus RTOS combined with the KPA EtherCAT Master stack provides a fully integrated reference software solution that streamlines development time and cost for device developers. Designed to meet the rigorous timing requirements for industrial automation, the reference solution delivers EtherCAT cycle times of 100 microsecond cycles with an extremely low jitter rate for precise device synchronization

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Master Development Kits are available through Customer Portal and
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Hannover Messe 2016

Hannover Messe 2016
The worlds leading showcase for industry technology
25. – 29 April 2016
Hannover, Germany
ETG Joint Booth, Hall 9-D 18
KPA EtherCAT Master on INtime 6

KPA EtherCAT Master on INtime 6
November 2014
Comprehensive and cost effective
Using the latest multicore Atom™ processors for real-time solutions, KPA EtherCAT Master Stack on INtime 6 of TenAsys® offers:
– Mapping the time critical requirements of EtherCAT master
– Reducing cost, system size, energy consumption, design complexity, time to market
KPA EtherCAT Master on RTX64

KPA EtherCAT Master on RTX64
November, 2014
RTX64 Power combined with KPA EtherCAT Master Performance
The combination of Windows with RTX64-2014 of IntervalZero and KPA EtherCAT Master allows developers to create sophisticated and intelligent systems for a variety of markets. These include in particular the industrial automation, test beds and motion control.
KPA Motion Partner is Winner of IEEE RAS Early Career Award

KPA Motion Partner is Winner of IEEE RAS Early Career Award

January, 2014
IEEE RAS Early Career Award (Industry/Government)
Torsten Kroeger – Stanford University, United States and Reflexxes GmbH , Germany: “For his scientific contributions to online trajectory generation and sensor-based motion control of robot systems widely used in industry and academia”
KPA EtherCAT Master with Motion

KPA EtherCAT Master with Motion
November, 2013
Not just any Motion solution, but “Motion on the Fly”
“Motion on the Fly” allows:
– Instantaneous reaction on events for multi axes
– Calculations of a multiple-axis movement in one cycle
– Jerk limited synchronized movements
KPA 4-CAN EtherCAT Gateway

KPA 4-CAN EtherCAT Gateway
April, 2013
The KPA EtherCAT CAN Gateway is an EtherCAT slave used to connect 4 raw CAN buses to an EtherCAT network. This device even meets the requirements of automotive testing industry.
Advantages
– Gateway can be placed close to CAN devices
– Gateway is suitable for harsh environments (IP, EMI)
– Replaces OS dependent on PCI CAN boards
Hannover Messe 2015

The worlds leading showcase for industry technology

Our attendance: 14. – 16. April 2015
Hannover, Germany
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ETG Joint Booth, Hall 9-D 18

Partnership for Motion: Reflexxes GmbH, CEO Torsten Kroeger
February, 2013
Our new development partner for motion is Reflexxes GmbH, an engineering company that specializes in developing online motion generation software for robots and servo drive controllers.
Partnerschip Freescale
January, 2013
koenig-pa GmbH is now Proven Freescale Connect Partner
QorIQ EtherCAT® PLC Reference Platform
August, 2012
koenig-pa GmbH provides EtherCAT Master for Multicore TWR-P1025 from Freescale. We use the QNX® Neutrino® real-time operating system (RTOS) and BSP from QNX Software Systems. Development is done using the QNX® Momentics® Tool Suite. More details on Pressebox
KPA MDK for Xenomai
July, 2012
MDK (Master Development Kit) for Xenomai package (Master Runtime, Master Integration Package and Tutorials) is available.
KPA EtherCAT Slave Stack for XILINX
June, 2012
KPA Slave Stack is now available for Xilinx FPGA
July, 2012
– KPA MDK (Master Development Kit) is available for
– WinCE 6.0/7.0 v1.5
– Win7
– RTX 2011 v1.6
KPA EtherCAT Studio Release v1.11.212.0
July, 2012
– Microsoft Windows 7 x86 and x64 are supported
– Reading of Modules out of ESI for MDP support
– Import for support of Safety Terminals

Announcements before 2012

March, 2011
KPA EtherCAT Slave Stack
We implements EtherCAT® Slave Stack requiring merely 55kByte ROM
December, 2011
We Development of a Portable Welding Robot with EtherCAT Interface
November, 2009
– KPA Studio EtherCAT release 1.9.23.1
Improvements: DC Topology New functionality: External DC oversampling PLC addresses
– KPA Master for RTX supports RTX 2009 SMP
June, 2009
– KPA Studio EtherCAT release 1.9.22.0
Further improvements of Data logging tool, first release of EEPROM editor tool. Improved usability for FoE and enhanced user interface with new functions to increase productivity. Maintenance pack to the recent 1.9 version.
– KPA Master EtherCAT® 1.4.6.7 is released
– RADIC Technologies as Sales & Technology Partner for North America
April, 2009
– KPA Master release 1.4.6.3
Support of QNX and Xenomai.Improvements in Master Core.
– KPA Studio release 1.9.21.0
Updated functionality to support latest developments for the Master, maintenance pack to the recent 1.9 version with minor new features and fixes of known bugs.
– KPA Master for INtime runs at 50 µs cycle
February, 2009
– Prosign is our new partner
– Partnership with Steinhoff
December, 2008
KPA Master release 1.4.5.2
Maintenance release to the recent 1.4 version with minor improvements and fixes of known bugs.

KPA Automation softPLC 1.2 RC released

KPA Automation softPLC 1.1 released

KPA EtherCAT Master 2.4 for Windows released

KPA EtherCAT Studio 1.12 released

KPA EtherCAT Studio 2.10 released

KPA Automation 4.3 released

KPA EtherCAT Master 2.4 for Windows, INtime released

KPA EtherCAT Master 1.6 for RTX64 released

KPA EtherCAT Master 1.6 for Windows, INtime released

Office Holiday Schedule 2021

koenig-pa GmbH joined PROFIBUS and PROFINET International

KPA EtherCAT Master 1.6 for RTX64 released

KPA EtherCAT Master 1.6 for VxWorks released

KPA EtherCAT Master 2.4 for FreeRTOS released

KPA Automation softPLC 1.1 released

KPA EtherCAT Studio 2.10 released

KPA EtherCAT Master 2.4 for FreeRTOS released

KPA Automation 4.3 released

KPA EtherCAT Master 2.4 for Linux-RT released

KPA EtherCAT Studio 1.12 released

KPA EtherCAT Master 1.6 for INtime released

KPA Automation 4.3 released

KPA Automation 4.3 released

KPA Automation 4.2 released

KPA EtherCAT Master 1.6 for Windows, RTX64, INtime, Linux, QNX released

KPA EtherCAT Master 2.4 for Windows released

KPA Automation 4.2 released

KPA EtherCAT Master 2.4 for Windows released

KPA EtherCAT Master 1.6 for QNX released

Support for KPA EtherCAT Master 1.5 will be stopped in January 2021

KPA EtherCAT Studio updated

koenig-pa GmbH joined the PLCopen

EtherCAT Master Redundancy

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KPA Automation 3.21 released

KPA EtherCAT Master Integrated Into EtherCAT PLC Reference Platform

KPA EtherCAT Master was integrated to straton PLC

KPA EtherCAT Master 1.6 released

KPA EtherCAT Master 2.1 released

KPA EtherCAT Studio 1.12 updated

KPA EtherCAT Master 1.x updated

KPA EtherCAT Slave Stack released

High-performance KPA EtherCAT Master on LZ-200 board featuring the Xilinx ZYNQ SoC

KPA Automation: software PLC with EtherCAT support released

Our continuously updated software products for RTX, RTX64 3.0 and RTX2016 supported

KPA EtherCAT Slave Stack ported to Texas Instruments Sitara™ MCU under Linux for phyCORE®-AM335x hardware

KPA Motion Library 1.0 for INtime 6 released

KPA Motion Library 1.0 for Linux 3.x/4.x, Xenomai 3 released

KPA Motion Library 1.0 for QNX 6.5/QNX 6.6 released

Our software continuously updated to INtime 6.1 and coming INtime 6.2

High performance KPA EtherCAT Master on LZ-200 featuring Xilinx Zynq FPGA

KPA EtherCAT Slave Stack ported to xPC Target / MATLAB 2015

KPA EtherCAT Slave Stack ported to Texas Instruments C2000 MCU

Mentor Graphics Nucleus RTOS Advances KPA EtherCAT Master Real-Time Performance for Industrial Automation

Hannover Messe 2016

KPA EtherCAT Master on INtime 6

KPA EtherCAT Master on RTX64

KPA Motion Partner is Winner of IEEE RAS Early Career Award

KPA EtherCAT Master with Motion

KPA 4-CAN EtherCAT Gateway

Hannover Messe 2015

Announcements before 2012

KPA EtherCAT Slave Stack ported to Texas Instruments Sitara™ MCU under Linux for phyCORE^®-AM335x hardware