Communications software EtherCAT Slave for Intel FPGA

portable protocolFPGAEtherCAT network

Integration of EtherCAT into Field Devices using Intel (Altera) FPGA Easy-to-integrate field device solution based on the EtherCAT slave code and the EtherCAT Slave IP Core from Beckhoff. Supports the CAN Application Protocol Over EtherCAT (CoE) and Ethernet Over EtherCAT (EoE). Easy and Inexpensive Development of EtherCAT Field Devices Using Altera FPGAs • Ready-to-use EtherCAT Qsys system • Demo application included • Future versions can easily be integrated One API For Quick Integration • Simple Device Application Interface (SDAI) designed as efficient protocol abstraction layer to use different protocols with same application • PROFINET IRT, EtherCAT, EtherNet/IP, POWERLINK and Modbus TCP using the same API • Single and dual processor systems supported Improved Performance • Minimum I/O data delay between physical layer and application • Process data processed by DMA logic • Guide to efficient application programming included Standard IT Support in Parallel with Industrial Ethernet • Direct forwarding of IT packets to application • No need to change existing IT structure • Socket interface for simple integration