Operates in the field of industrial automation, esd is a leading supplier of CAN modules (pioneers CAN technology). Range of services encompasses the development and manufacture of CAN-modules, including drivers, necessary firmware, interfaces to other systems such as PLC, CPCI, VME, PC and some helpful tools. As a hardware manufacturer esd supplies components for VME and CompactPCI offers a complete line of world wide selling VME and CompactPCI products as well as PMC boards. esd is an active member of the VITA (VMEbus International Trade Association) and member of the PCI-SIG (PCI Special Interest Group), as well as embedded systems and custom-specific applications. As higher layer CAN protocols, CANopen and DeviceNet implementations for masters and slaves are available from esd. Moreover, this software is available on source code level base for customized solutions. esd is a member of the ODVA (Open DeviceNet Vendors Association), founder member of the CiA (CAN in Automation) and is an active and competent partner in numerous committees. The real time multitasking operating systems like VxWorks, QNX, LynxOS, RTX, OSE, OS-9, RT-Linux and RTOS-UH as well as various UNIX and GNU/Linux systems is supported by esd, various drivers (QNX6, VxWorks, GNU/Linux etc) besides support for user programming and implementation. For more information about esd click here.