EtherCAT Workbench

ESD Electronic System Design (esd)

EtherCAT® is a very flexible real-time Industrial Ethernet protocol published as IEC 61158 standard. The data exchange follows the 'processing on the fly' principal which means that data is passed by each slave device with just a minimal delay before it is processed. This makes EtherCAT to the ideal solution for Ethernet based industrial control systems with many distributed I/Os and/or cycle times less than 100 µs.