Partner
F&S cooperates with partner companies in different areas. The cooperation guarantees the user best support and highest functionality.
IMACS GmbH
Since 1991, IMACS develops and produces measurement-, control-, and automation systems for different industry lines. Single components or complete embedded systems; solutions by IMACS are always individual and flexible. IMACS products are classified in two sectors:
- ecoSOLUT: offers individual hardware solutions. From device design over hardware design up to production your requirements always come first. The compact and flexible add-on system realizes all potentials
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radCASE: is a software tool for object-oriented shaping and generating of technical appliances. From system specification over implementation up to code generation and tests radCASE supports the complete designing process with only one tool.
By combining hard- and software design, IMAC can respond flexibly to your requests. From the very idea up to serial production you profit from IMACs experience and their instinct for optimal technical solutions.
emlix GmbH
Core competences and markets
Linux and Ethernet-TCP/IP technology for embedded systems are the central competence fields of emlix GmbH. Emlix is an all-Open Source system integrator and therefore free from dependencies on retailers of commercial operating systems and tools.
By customized solutions in the areas of customer distributions and board support, network services as well as GUI- and application design, modern software platforms for control and network tasks, are realized in the customers products. In addition emlix offers products for highly demanded solutions. For F&S Elektronik Systeme GmbHs embedded computers emlix provides complete Board Support Packages.
The adequate Board Support Package accompanies the NetDCU starterkit. For an easier and more efficient start seminars and Start-up trainings are offered in regular intervals. It is unnecessary to say that all system components are delivered to the customer in source code.
Service and products
The customized solutions are developed on common processor families such as ARM9 (NetDCU8), MIPS (NetDCU6), PowerPC (NetDCU3) and XScale (NetDCU5). By direct contact to F&S, emlix disposes of first-hand technical information and sources.
The project-specific services contain in detail:
- Customer-specific trainings
- Consulting and in-field support
- Kernel and driver development
- Cross Development Tool chains
- Real-time add-ons (RTAI)
- TCP/IP-services and control protocols
- Remote control, update and management
- Library, Hardware Abstraction Layer
- Application design and migration
- Software reviews, module/system tests
Business concept and customer value
By simplified access to knowledge and experience emlix reduces adjustment and designing time for its customers. With emlix as a reliable outsourcing partner, milestones are reached much quicker since they help to expand capacities in a case.
Emlix solutions usually base on the respective Open Source sources of the world-wide Linux community. In contrary to standard distributors, their patches and changes are comprehensible. This practice guarantees a maximum of technical transparency.

