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The EasyCAT PRO is a module for interfacing the EtherCAT® Bus with generic microcontroller and CPU such as: PIC, ARM, etc... to create EtherCAT® Slave Devices. Some of the possible applications are:

  • I/O devices both analogical and digital with possibility of pre-elaboration and elaboration of the signals as averages, linearizations, filters, etc …
  • Generators of PWM signals to pilot motor and other
  • Serial gateways RS-232, RS-485, CAN, Modbus TCP/IP, ecc …from and toward EtherCAT®
  • Display TFT Touch EtherCAT®
  • Educational
  • Emulators of other EtherCAT® devices

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Characteristics

The EasyCAT PRO allows to exchange on the bus EtherCAT® 32 byte in input and 32 byte in output, configurable up to 128 byte. The communication is totally managed in Hardware and the exchange of data with the processor is made via SPI.
The EasyCAT PRO can support three types of synchronization: Free RUN, SM Sync and Distributed Clocks.

Custom Data

The EasyCAT board is shipped configured for 32+32 bytes, I.E. it is capable to exchange, out of the box, 32 bytes in input and 32 bytes in output, with an EtherCAT® master.
This is very simple, as everything is already defined and the user has nothing to do other than accessing the input/output variables in his application, but, in some situations, it may be useful to modify this fixed pattern, to better meet our needs. For instance it could be required to exchange more than 32+32 bytes, or to customize the names and the data types of the variables, in order to use them in a more comfortable way in our application.
The Easy Configurator is a software tool that allows you to do this in a simple and immediate way without having to dig into the complexity of the EtherCAT® specifications.
 

 

Easy Navigator

To meet the request of many Customers who ask for a simple software tool to test the applications made with our EasyCAT boards, we have developed the Easy Navigator. It is a very basic EtherCAT® Master with a friendly and intuitive HMI where You can easily read and write values from/to the EasyCAT boards. It's not required any special library as WinPCAP because it uses the feature of the EtherCAT® protocol to be encapsulated in an UDP frame. Then simply connect Your EasyCAT board to the LAN port of Your PC, run the tool and enjoy the EtherCAT®.

 

Microcontrollers

  • ARM (Raspberry, Embedded Systems, SoC and others)
  • PIC

Library and example projects for Mbed ecosystem


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Example for Microchip PIC18F26K22 (.zip)

Example for Microchip PIC18F26K22 with Custom Data (.zip)

Application example for Microchip PIC18F26K22 (.pdf)

XML EtherCAT® Configuration File (ESI)

Schematic EasyCAT PRO (.pdf)

Mechanical drawing EasyCAT PRO (.pdf)

3D Model EasyCAT PRO (.step)

Easy Configurator V4.2 (.zip)

Easy Navigator V1.0 (.zip)

Open Source Master with which to test our cards

There are numerous EtherCAT® Masters on the market, some of which are Open Source and are a valid help to start testing with our cards. The ones we recommend are three:

EtherCAT Explorer that works on Windows

IgH EtherCAT Master that works on Linux

SOEM that works on Windows and Linux.

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