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By M Griffin
By M Griffin
By M Griffin
By M Griffin
It's available since a long time ... and it was clean from the
beginning :)
EtherCAT has a ring topology and its devices have a very little
propagation delay, but the speed of the network is bound to the
transmission speed of the 100Mb/s Ethernet. It takes still more than
120us until a full packet has passed a device. Adding N devices to a
EtherCAT network does only add N x ~50ns to the bus cycle ... that
means the bus cycle depends heavily on the size of the packets and
the number packets which are necessary to transport the I/O data
of the ring. The offering of general purpose I/Os are comparable
with the offering of Wago, but there are also additional third party
offerings.
It seems so that we have a different understanding the term
'general purpose' regarding Modbus. A general purpose fieldbus
should at least support bus cycles in the range of 5ms to xxx ms,
IMHO.
Best Regards
Armin Steinhoff
http://www.steinhoff-automation.com
By M Griffin
By M Griffin