EtherCAT Chipset for Industrial Applications
Inefficiencies in industrial automation reduce throughput, increase costs and impact profits. Missed production deadlines or deliveries affect a company’s reputation for delivering as promised to its customers. Fortunately, EtherCAT® is an open Ethernet network that delivers real-time performance with flexible topologies to enhance cycle times and improve quality. Features such as diagnostics, compatibility between product generations and a fully assured software release schedule reduce design risk to enable the shortest time to market.
Our Ethernet physical layer (PHY) solutions have been used successfully in industrial Ethernet applications for many years. We launched our first integrated EtherCAT device in 2015 to enable our clients to take advantage of the many benefits of EtherCAT technology. Our EtherCAT product portfolio includes PHY devices, controllers and fully integrated microcontrollers (MCUs) that support both EtherCAT and Ethernet technologies. They include refinements such as ESI EEPROM emulation and clock daisy-chaining. Our MPLAB® Harmony embedded software framework for 32-bit MCUs also supports EtherCAT technology to simplify your development and accelerate bringing your design from concept to production.
- EtherCAT Controllers
- EtherCAT PHYs
LAN9255 EtherCAT and Ethernet Device Controller with 32-bit Arm® Cortex®-M4F MCU
- Integrated SAM E53 MCU with standard peripheral suite
- Integrated LAN9253 EtherCAT device controller with optimized EtherCAT cycle time
- Available in commercial, industrial and extended temperature ranges
EtherCAT Device Controller
- Eight Fieldbus Memory Management Units (FMMUs) and eight SyncManagers
- Dual integrated EtherCAT PHYs (EtherCAT IN/EtherCAT OUT) with HP Auto-MDIX
- Optional operation without EtherCAT Device Information (ESI) EEPROM
Ethernet MAC
- MII/RMII connection to single port PHY or multiport switch
- LAN8720A PHY and LAN9303 switch supported with code examples
- Flexibility to also design with LAN8770 100BASE-T1 PHY
EtherCAT Design Resources
emotas embedded communication GmbH
Protocol Stacks for Microchip Controllers
emotas offers evaluation platform software solutions for our products.
RT-Labs
EtherCAT CiA402 Motor Control
RT-Labs supports our EtherCAT devices within their Free RTOS SEOS library. They also have built CIA-402 examples around our evalution hardware.
Video Resources
Ethernet Devices
META-DX1: Terabit PHY with MACsec and FlexE
META-DX1: Terabit PHY with MACsec and FlexE
This video introduces our META-DX1 family, the industry’s first terabit-scale (1.2 Tbps) Ethernet PHY, and discusses the market trends and industry challenges it addresses. META-DX1 brings multiple innovations to the market tied to key requirements on security with MACsec, flexibility and scalability with Flexible Ethernet, bandwidth growth with 400 GbE, and 5G wireless with nanosecond level timestamping accuracy.
Embedded Connectivity Getting Started with Dev Tools
Embedded Connectivity: Getting Started With Development Tools
Medium One's IoT Ethernet Monitoring Kit
Medium One's IoT Ethernet Monitoring Kit
This video will guide you through the process of installing the IoT Ethernet Monitoring Kit powered by Medium One.
MPLAB® Harmony TCP/IP Stack
MPLAB® Harmony TCP/IP Stack
This video provices a quick overview of the MPLAB Harmony TCP/IP Stack and the benefits it brings to high-performance embedded networking applications.
USB and Ethernet Solutions Demonstration from CES 2017
USB and Ethernet Solutions Demonstration
This USB, Ethernet, Ethernet switch and traffic demonstration with diagnostics and bandwidth monitoring is based on our DU0141 demo platform.