3.8µs EtherCAT<4µs cycle time · IEC 62443 compliant
01The Problem
Industrial machinery requires cycle-accurate deterministic communication between controllers and drives. Standard Ethernet cannot guarantee delivery timing. Proprietary fieldbus implementations lock you into vendor ecosystems. EtherCAT's hardware-timestamped distributed clock eliminates jitter — but only when implemented correctly.
02Our Approach
- 01EtherCAT master stack (SOEM/IgH) on Linux with PREEMPT_RT patch
- 02Distributed clock synchronization: all slaves synchronized to <100ns
- 03IEC 62443-compliant network segmentation and access control
- 04CoE (CANopen over EtherCAT) profile implementation for drives
- 05PDO/SDO object dictionary management and hot-connect support
03Verified Metrics
MeasurementBeforeAfter
EtherCAT Cycle Time
i.MX8M + PREEMPT_RT
Slave Sync Error
Distributed Clock
Network Latency
EtherCAT frame
All measurements on production-grade hardware, oscilloscope verified
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