Project Summary
EMC is software that implements real-time control of equipment such as CNC machine tools, robots, and coordinate measuring machines. It runs in realtime under Linux with the RTAI patch. It provides a software PLC, and a realtime HAL for flexibility.
For ease of use, prebuilt packages are available for most LTS releases of Ubuntu.
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has a well established, mature codebase
maintained by a very large development team
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took an estimated 290 years of effort (COCOMO model)
starting with its first commit in October, 2003
ending with its most recent commit about 15 hours ago
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