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.
>
>
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