> -----Original Message----- > From: Jon Elson [mailto:el...@pico-systems.com] > Sent: 09 February 2011 13:09 > To: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC) > Subject: Re: [Emc-users] Ethernet with EMC2 > > Viesturs La-cis wrote: > > Guys, > > > > what do You think about these two? > > http://www.enclustra.com/en/products/fpga-modules/mars-starter/ > > http://www.enclustra.com/en/products/fpga-modules/mars-mx1/ > > > > > So, that's $500 US to get an FPGA on the ethernet? Yishin is > right, expensive. > > Jon >From what I can find out, etherCAT is a proprietary development of Beckhoff in >Germany that only appears on the surface to be open. The catch is the >requirement for special slave devices that come in the form of ASICs or >node-limited IP cores for FPGAs. Seems odd to consider it for open-source >EMC2. Please correct me if I am wrong. John C
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