Capabilities
Industrial/Security

Industrial Protocols (EtherCAT)

3.8µs EtherCAT<4µs cycle time · IEC 62443 compliant

The 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.

Our Approach

  • EtherCAT master stack (SOEM/IgH) on Linux with PREEMPT_RT patch
  • Distributed clock synchronization: all slaves synchronized to <100ns
  • IEC 62443-compliant network segmentation and access control
  • CoE (CANopen over EtherCAT) profile implementation for drives
  • PDO/SDO object dictionary management and hot-connect support

Verified Metrics

EtherCAT Cycle Time
i.MX8M + PREEMPT_RT
8µs (standard)3.8µs
Slave Sync Error
Distributed Clock
±5µs<100ns
Network Latency
EtherCAT frame
~1ms (TCP)<4µs

Deterministic fieldbus is the backbone of industrial systems

Let's assess your motion control topology and design an EtherCAT architecture.

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