> The slave can NOT use standard ethernet hardware. There is the hitch. you > can buy Ethercat slave controllers for quite a lot of money or try to make > one but for that you need some special ASIC chips and custom PCBs. Not a > home shop type project. That said here is a VERY detailed walk through of > how one person built an open source Ethercat slave. > https://youtu.be/i7gFqLQb0EA > The video is very good and he walks through the design in detail. > Actually, it was enough to make me think canbus might be simpler.
Maybe I did not write clearly enough. The drivers and circuit board layout constraint is the same for Ethercat as ordinary Ethernet but the internal handling in the chip is different so a chip which could talk Ethercat is needed. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
