Enabling Tomorrow's Discoveries

Client:

Oxford Instruments

Project:

Saturn Platform Development

Goal:

Create a unified technology platform to support multiple product lines and enable rapid future development.

Results

Established standardised build processes

Created maintainable, scalable systems

Enabled rapid platform updates

Reduced development time from years to weeks

Provided future-proof architecture

Scientists working at laboratory workstations

Challenge

Develop a flexible, maintainable platform supporting a range of scientific instruments, while letting Oxford Instruments’ Windows-based development team build applications in C#.

Our Solution

Together we developed the Saturn platform providing:

Custom Linux-based operating system

Comprehensive board support packages

Integrated development environment

Application development framework

Continuous integration build server

Automated testing capabilities

Streamlined deployment processes

Mono framework integration for C# development

A key decision in the Saturn platform was Rufilla’s early adoption of Yocto. In 2012, when most embedded Linux systems were custom-built for each application, Rufilla made Yocto the foundation of the platform, years before it became the industry standard.