EtherCAT is among the leading communications standards based on Ethernet that is used increasingly for networking and communications in the industrial or factory environment for input/output (I/O) ...

San Jose, Calif. -- July 18, 2007-- Giving industrial equipment designers greater flexibility in implementing real-time Ethernet communications, Altera Corporation (NASDAQ: ALTR) today announced ...

Citing what it called “an important milestone,” the EtherCat Technology Group (ETG, www.ethercat.org) announced on July 13 that the Safety-over-EtherCat Protocol has been accepted unanimously by the ...

While many people are familiar with the application of Ethernet technology in the office and in the wider communications market, fewer may be aware of the protocol's application in the industrial ...

Since its launch in 2003, the EtherCAT protocol, with “processing on the fly” and data transmission speeds up to 100 Mbit/s, has been widely adopted for automation and process control applications. In ...

San Jose, Calif., July 29, 2013—Altera Corporation (NASDAQ: ALTR) today announced the availability of a fully verified EtherCAT (Ethernet for Control Automation Technology) protocol intellectual ...

Hsinchu, Taiwan, November 26, 2021 --(PR.com)-- Following the launch of the first generation AX58100 EtherCAT Slave Controller in 2018 and the launch of next generation small package AX58200 EtherCAT ...

Ethernet for Control Automation Technology (EtherCAT) was developed by Beckhoff. It’s based on the CANopen protocol and on Ethernet but differs from internet communication or network communications in ...

EtherCAT is an open, realtime, and deterministic Ethernet fieldbus standard widely regarded as one of the best industrial networks to date. One reason for its growing use is that it's several orders ...

A decade ago, communications in machines took place on a point-to-point basis. If you were building a multi-axis system, you would have to wire 15 wires per axis from the drive to the controller. If ...

“Customers have wanted to leverage the performance of the EtherCAT protocol IP in the FPGA for some time, but have always been hampered by licensing costs,” said Brian Jentz, director, industrial ...

SAN JOSE, USA: Altera Corp. announced the availability of a fully verified EtherCAT (Ethernet for Control Automation Technology) protocol intellectual property (IP) for Altera FPGAs. This announcement ...