Infineon XMC4300 have builtin Ethercat peripheral but it require two external drivers, two sets of MII pins and extra cost is roughly the same as using external chip.
2017-10-31 22:27 GMT+01:00 Chris Albertson <albertson.ch...@gmail.com>: > Yes oddly enough it's a significanly cheaper product made from > > significanlty more expensive components. > > > Oddly? No. This is what always happens with electronics if you wait. > > Today Ethercat looks to be the way the world of automatic is going. It > was adopted as a preferred standard in China and there are many German > companies turning out ICs. > > Wait long enough these will be commodity priced parts. Remember with > Gecko style stepper drivers we expensive? What's going to happen is ST > Micro or a company like it (TI?) will release an ARM M with Ethercat PHY as > a built in peripheral. Then you have can have a one chip controller. (just > add RJ45 and magnetics) They already build I2C, SPI and Ethernet into the > $1 chips. They will do Ethercat at some point. > > > -- > > Chris Albertson > Redondo Beach, California > ------------------------------------------------------------ > ------------------ > 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 > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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