Your system advantages by EtherCAT

• Components for engineering, system test, data logging with homogeneous interface
• Uniform technology for on-board network and test infrastructure
• Flexible network configuration enables cost-effective adaption of vehicle variants based on unified platform architecture (product line)
• Automatic network conœ guration, no manual network planning
• Flexible, non-reactive extension of the topology in every phase of development, testing and in the series
  (face lifting)
• Integrated functional safety with Safety over EtherCAT

EtherCAT is an open real-time communication system that offers a quantum leap of performance and bandwidth according to existing systems in mobile applications:

• Reduction to one powerful, future-proofed standard EtherCAT
• International Standard IEC 61158, IEC 61784
• Extremely short cycle times (to <50 us)
• Deterministic behavior of the full on-board network
• Sub-microsecond precision synchronization
• 100 MBit/s bandwidth, full-duplex standard Ethernet
• Ethernet physical layer, including CAT 5, œ fiber optics, single pair unshielded cable,…
• Increased availability and reliability of the communication system due to cable redundancy without additional hardware costs in the ECUs
• Integration of existing communication systems (CAN, LIN, FlexRay, ISOBUS, … )
• Safety over EtherCAT:
  ISO 26262 ASIL 3, IEC 61508 SIL 3 and ISO 13849 PLe ready

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