PCAN-Light for LINUX is the easy to use software interface for CAN hardware by PEAK-System. There's a single API (Application Programming Interface) for all CAN interfaces. This simplifies the software development. The drivers are designed to work with CAN hardware by PEAK-System and 100 percent compatible hardware by OEM vendors. Take care when using third-party hardware, since the drivers use special functions. In this new version of driver;

• Optimized for multicore environments;
• Fixed endian problem for netdev sending SFF frames via USB;
• Removed a bug where a write could return -ENODATA even if the write was successful;
• Renamed pcan_fifo_near_ful() to pcan_fifo_not_ful();
• Moved the sense of pcan_fifo_empty();
• Now it returns true (!=0) if the FIFO is empty;
• Minor bug fixes.

Oregano project is an application for schematic capture and simulation of electrical and electronic circuits. A new version of Oregano (0.69.1), has been released; it's almost a maintenance release with bugfixing and upgrade version of some dependencies (e.g. upgrade GtkSourceView to version 2.0). If you want to grab this version, click here.

PLCEdit is a source code editor for PLC programming; it can read and edit POU files and it is able to create different types of POUs, programs, function blocks, functions and global variable lists, according to the IEC61131-3 standard. Compatible to Moeller Sucosoft (v4/v5), CoDeSys export files (v2.x), Siemens Step7 IL/SCL and KW-Software Multiprog IL/ST sources. Version 2.1.1 of PLCEdit is a bug fixing release;

• Fixed an incorrect saved files (incorrect content, incorrect renamed tabs);
• Fixed a lost closing sign if data type or I/O comments are deselected in the function block dialog;
• Fixeda lost last POU line in CoDeSys export files;
• Updated docs for source.

Scilab Team has published Scilab 6’s ambition document. After the success of Scilab 5 releasing a brand new user-friendly interface, the Scilab Consortium aims at making Scilab a major actor in various fields such as High Performance Computing, code generation, embedded systems, ...while giving to users more and more advanced and powerful features. Scilab 6’s ambition is announced: pursuing Scilab 5’s improvements with great perspectives of development concerning the programming language itself, calculation performances and a better use of architecture's capabilities. For more information click here.

ClassicLadder is a ladder and sequential (grafcet) languages as used on many PLC for programming automation process. Ladder language allows to realize programs on PLC in an electric way. It is based on the concept of relay contacts and coils, and can be used to construct logic checks and functions in a manner that is familiar to many systems integrators. Some changes in this new version of ClassicLadder;