ARM processor ANTAIOS

industrial

The ANTAIOS combines a powerful ARM Cortex-A5 processor for advanced user applications with an effective and very flexible communication technology for today´s industrial applications demanding sophisticated real-time capabilities. It is designed for remote-IOs, gateways, sensors, actors and communication master/slave modules. ANTAIOS primarily focuses on the efficient and flexible implementation of high-performance real-time Ethernet communication protocols such as EtherCAT, PROFINET IRT or TSN/OPC UA. The real-time Ethernet unit is programmable, and is therefore able to support all Ethernet-based protocols. This enables quick reaction to any protocol changes and offers a high degree of flexibility and security in the future, as new features can be conveniently retrofitted via software (microcode). It means ANTAIOS is ready now for any TSN extensions that are coming up and whatever future challenges Industry 4.0 and IIoT may bring. Setting it apart from other implementations, the I/O data is available via a hardware interface (consistency interface). Slow access times via software callback functions and long copy routines are a thing of the past. This makes the I/O data available in real-time. Furthermore, the user has the option to separate the PROFINET consumer/provider states from the I/O data via the consistency interface. A convenient extra function is that the data can be re-sorted into virtually any order by the hardware and converted into the desired target format, which also eliminates time-consuming software routines. Additionally, a unique feature of this SoC is the high-speed backplane-communication-master for profichip SliceBus Technology.