With the dSPACE EtherCAT slave interface you can connect a dSPACE system to the Ethernet fieldbus EtherCAT as a slave. Typical use cases are applications in process automation or test benches.
The dSPACE EtherCAT slave interface connects a dSPACE real-time system to the Ethernet fieldbus EtherCAT as a slave. Typical use cases for the EtherCAT slave interface are real-time applications in automation technology, such as process automation or test benches.
The dSPACE EtherCAT slave interface enables you to take advantage of the very high performance of an EtherCAT network, which supports 100 Mbit/s and cycle times down to 50 μs.
EtherCAT is an open, high-performance, Ethernet-based fieldbus system and is especially designed for automation applications which require short cycle times and low communication jitter. The EtherCAT slave device reads the data addressed to it and also inserts input data while the telegram passes through. The frames are only delayed by a fraction of a microsecond in each node, and many nodes can be addressed with just one frame. EtherCAT is an international standard (for more information, see www.ethercat.org).
The EtherCAT slave interface consists of the DS5202 FPGA Base Board with a piggyback module, which carries up to two Beckhoff EtherCAT modules FB1111-0140. The bracket features two RJ45 plug sockets for connection to the EtherCAT network. The EtherCAT blockset mainly consists of a base library and a template model generator. A model containing all the necessary blocks is generated from a configuration M-structure that has to be created by the user.
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| CAN application layer over EtherCAT communication |
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| Multirate modeling |
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