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 Continuous EtherCAT at all levels |
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The widely used and known EtherCAT Device Protocol, which is also often referred to simply as the EtherCAT protocol, is used at the field level for I/O communication within a machine or machine part. Special features are, among others, the highly accurate determinism with very low cycle times (down to < 100 μs), precise synchronization for drive and measurement applications as well as low cabling and commissioning costs when using the technology at the I/O level. ... | |||
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ETG membership meeting in Japan |
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123 EtherCAT Technology Group (ETG) member representatives attended the recent ETG meeting in Tokyo in order to get the latest EtherCAT news and technology updates first hand. The attendees welcomed news that the entire EtherCAT specification as well as supporting documentation is currently being translated into Japanese. Also, the new EtherCAT Test Center in Kyoto was introduced. ... download PDF file |
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1st North American EtherCAT Plug Fest |
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The first North American EtherCAT Plug Fest was well attended with over 20 people from 11 ETG member companies. At this Plug Fest four new master implementations were tested with the slave device variety of 8 different vendors. The main goal of this event, which was hosted by National Instruments in Austin, Texas, was to check interoperability of EtherCAT implementations. ...download PDF file |
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