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) ...

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 ...

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

To address this challenge, an all-around "carefree package" to develop new Safety over EtherCAT solutions is now available for automation system vendors. With Safety over EtherCAT, not only does the ...

“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 ...

Mentor Graphics® Nucleus ® real-time operating system (RTOS) advances real-time EtherCAT® performance for industrial automation with integration to the Koenig-pa GmbH (KPA) EtherCAT® Master stack. The ...

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 ...

Hilscher has expanded support for its netX 90 multiprotocol communication processor, now also including the CiA 402 drive ...

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 ...

NUREMBERG, Germany--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Freescale Semiconductor, a leader in industrial embedded processors, has collaborated with four top protocol and operating systems vendors to offer ...