EtherCAT Slave1.11.00
Introduction

This is the integration manual of the EtherCAT Slave stack on Sitara AM64x Platform. The EtherCAT stack is executed by a dedicated R5F Core running FreeRTOS.

Features added by KUNBUS on top of Beckhoff stack for EtherCAT:

  • CiA402 and Modular Device profile
  • ESI file parser
  • Dynamic reconfiguration of object dictionary
  • Scalable architecture to support integration of further protocols (e.g. PROFINET Master, PROFIBUS, CC-Link etc.) and other TI silicon