> -----Original Message----- > From: Viesturs Lacis [mailto:viesturs.la...@gmail.com] > Sent: 09 February 2011 20:52 > To: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC) > Subject: Re: [Emc-users] Ethernet with EMC2 > > 2011/2/9 Alex Joni <alex.j...@robcon.ro>: > >> 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/ > >> > > > > They are not that expensive by themselves, but I think they > _DO NOT_ > > contain the EtherCAT slave IPs. > > So you have to buy those separately from Beckhoff. > > Thanks! > I sent them e-mail to find it out. > > Viesturs There is another alternative that might suit that appears not to require the special hardware in the slave nodes; see
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethernet_Powerlink Not quite as fast as etherCAT but might be fast enough. Regards John C ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The ultimate all-in-one performance toolkit: Intel(R) Parallel Studio XE: Pinpoint memory and threading errors before they happen. Find and fix more than 250 security defects in the development cycle. Locate bottlenecks in serial and parallel code that limit performance. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-dev2devfeb _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
