CompAmerica INDUSTRIAL COMPUTER SYSTEMS is both a Turnkey (white and branded) Box hardware providing system integrator and a Software Development and integration company.  We develop our customers' applications in C++/VC++, VB, and Assembler, on Windows and Linux platforms, using the IA-32 and it's brethren CPU chips, including new 64 Bit extended processors, in single, dual, and quad or higher configuration designs. We directly develop the underlying platforms, from PCs and Servers to ICS's, rugged platforms and tiny systems, to the peripherals needed to control, observe, monitor, communicate and/or switch. 

The first step (in brief) is to analyze the customers requirements and obtain an approved Statement of Work, that usually starts with the formal system analysis and design and QA design plan.  From there we move on to creating the working prototype environment.

Our industrial computer systems use an Industrial Strength Backplane with Single Board CPU in PICMG or EURO form factor, or  an active mainboard design as in traditional IBM PC Architecture computers, products based on the Intel® Architecture, Intel® Internet Exchange Architecture (Intel® IXA), and the modular communications platform. These are, without doubt, the finest Industrial Single Board Computers and Backplanes offered anywhere. We integrate them for applications requiring a large number of controllers, numerical control engines, storage farms or communications processors.

System Integrated from parts manufactured in and outside of the USA, these industrial computers provide long run and reduced maintenance requirements.  They are domestically designed, integrated and supported. They are state-of-the-art. They achieve the highest performance, systems which will give you years of trouble free operation.

The PICMG and CompactPCI Series CPU's are manufactured by ISO9001 and/or Intel Communications Alliance Single Board Computer and Backplane manufacturing facilities  for unsurpassed quality, and equal or exceed the PICMG and CPCI published standards of quality and design. Our future Eurocards will be offered shortly, and meet or exceed VME standards.  The accompanying backplanes are designed FOR USE WITH these CPUs to create an entirely stable foundation computer to which adapters may be added as needed.

For example, the SBC above, the R8, offers Dual Xeon processors up to 3.06GHz, 8GB of on-board RAM and dual Gigabit Ethernet ports, all in one incredibly well designed CPU. The R8+ offers a blinding 3.4GHz operation using Intel Pentium 4 Extreme with up to 2MB L2 Cache. We also use a wide variety of Backplanes, ranging from 3 to 17 PCI ports, and ISA and PCIx ports with a variety of controller logic designs suitable for the application in question.  Industrial Computer Systems'  backplanes offer state of the art American Manufactured or European/Asian Manufactured technology.  We use boards with multi-layer, buffered, impedance matched layouts for glitch free, low noise operation.

We use a menu driven selection process from among the many products depicted on this site, included for discussion purposes with our customers.  We also include in our product provisioning, both ruggedized and non-rugged mobile systems, hazardous duty personal computers and tiny computers, which along with the racks and ICS's, panel PCs, and various traditional desktop PCs and Servers, make it possible for us not only to create integrated volume run Branded/White box solutions, but to produce one or many of a kind custom site and campus or theater installations for business and government customers that not only cross the gamut of the above types of Industrial Computer Systems, but includes projects that include Software Engineering of applications and related procedures, so a "drop in and go" solution spanning multiple ICS, PCs, Mobiles, Nets and Rugged/Hazardous platforms can be harmonized into a single cohesive solution "bound together" by a project wide Software Development Effort.
 

Industrial Computer Systems' Integration Department uses rapid deployment technology to integrate  high quality SBC's and backplanes with one of our world class Rackmount or Pedestal Enclosures. These "barebones" ICs allow a galaxy of  tape and disk drives and I/O cards to be integrated into our Turnkey products. Areas we've built turnkeys include Voice Processing, Video Distribution, Missile and Fire Control and Guidance, Plant Control, AI and Robotics and a variety of other solutions. provide you with a rugged industrial multi-slot system with unmatched performance.  View our OPERATING SYSTEM page for a glimpse of just some of the software you can run or which we can develop your Turnkey application (or transport it) for you.

Stage 2:  Network Buildup Prototype -

In order to develop the software necessary for a particular customer application, we assemble a "development network" using a mix of the above components and our software building blocks.  We equip the "NBP" with a full development suite, as we develop in C++, VB, Visual Studio, J2EE, J++, Oracle, DB2, Sql Server, .Net Nextgeneration, on Microsoft and Unix platforms, Tenasys, and other systems as needed.  Our focus combines realt time with non-real time software implementation.  On the NBP is then run tested to insure it represents the finished product suite in form, function and framework.  During this cycle, we also run test new or customized components from our suppliers, for consistency with each other, acquire up to date quality assurance and methods and practices information, and routinely double check specifications compliance, and conformance with certifications ranging from NEBS and PICMG to Intel ICA and IEC 61131, depending upon the application.

Once completed, the existing system design done in the pre-Project phages: System Definition Phase, is lifecycled and personnel and additional resources are acquired for preliminary roll out or rapid deployment.
 

                                                          

Our Software Engineers are "unequalled".  Former IBM and AT&T Software Engineers with expert knowledge in Telecom, Datacom, Microcom, Microcode, Database, System Engineering, and unparalleled operating system internals knowledge, "the Software Guys" produce code that is bulletproof, employing extensive regression analysis, top down design, rapid prototyping and exhaustive debug testing.  They are simply the best in the world at software.  We approach each application from a "Holistic" perspective, so that hardware and software and operating system mesh properly, with future enhancement simplified, backwards compatibility insured and designed in functional seamlessness and modularity without competition.  Exhaustive experience at interoperability testing in the ISO and X.nn standards, insures a finished product that is sensible and performs exceptionally.

We have worked with and studied dozens of architecting projects, and distilled what we believe to be the best practices and pitfalls that would help architects successfully create and deploy their architectures. Based on this experience, we have created our Visual Architecting Process™ (VAP). Though our architecting process lays out the activities and guidelines that we have derived from real-world experience, no project that we studied followed exactly this process. Also, every project that we have consulted with or coached, has adapted the process. This has been true of other software development methods, such as SA/SD, OMT and Fusion (Malan, Coleman and Letsinger, 1995). It would appear that a method is not fully embraced by a project team until they have adapted it to their particular project needs. In this regard, methods are somewhat like architectures!

The architecting process incorporates a technical process and an organizational process. The technical process includes steps and heuristics for creating a good architecture. However, a technically good architecture is not sufficient to ensure the successful use of the architecture, and the organizational process is oriented toward ensuring support for, and adoption of, the architecture.

We embrace software development with an alacrity surpassed only by our desire to solve your business needs in a timely and effective manner. With a proven history of strategic relationships, our developers endeavor to live by one simple rule - "deliver quality software and hardware industrial computer projects on-time".

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Miscellaneous support, technical information and drivers for our ICS's, SBC's, Video, Sound, Comm and Backp[lanes are available online at http://www.compamerica.com/drivers or by calling 888-ASK-CSS-1. Remember: the above are just a smattering of possible options, we also use Euro Cards, CompactPCI, AdvancedTCA, TX and ITX and innovative all in one embeddable single board computers.

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