KPA EtherCAT Slave Stack

KPA EtherCAT Slave stack is a software stack designed to run on microcontrollers, CPUs or DSPs with or without any operating system and provided as a source code or compiled library (SDK).

General:

• Code written in "C"
• Small footprint for 8- and 16 Bit- microcontrollers without Operating System (OS) e.g. SAB 80x16x (Infineon), ARMx (Atmel) 
• Depending on size of Object Dictionary and Process Image
  • ROM (flash) size >= 64kB
  • RAM size >= 8kB
• Approx. 25.000 lines of code

EtherCAT functions:

• Compatible with any Beckhoff’s EtherCAT Slave Controllers (ESC): 
  ASIC ET 1xxx and IP-Core
• Operating System -based or OS-less
• IRQ-handling of hardware events 
• Polling of Mailbox (Mbx) and Process Image
• Static Object Dictionary (OD) with pointer given from application
• Supporting Intel- and Motorola-data formats

EtherCAT functions:

• Mailbox protocols: CoE, EoE, FoE, SoE VoE 
• Distributed Clocks (DC)
• Different scan rates

Extended features:

• Operating System Abstraction
  • Hardware Abstraction Layer instead of separate “defines” 
  • Operating System Abstraction Layer for adaptation to operating systems
• Runtime generation/changing of Object Dictionary (OD) using standard xml file or customer-specific OD-description data from ROM, flash memory or ECS’s EEPROM
• Live trace of code execution for efficient debugging and diagnostics
• Different scan rates for process image exchange
• Virtual NIC support (optional)

Delivery package:

• Source code license for unrestricted use¹
• SDK as compiled library², implementation example included for Linux POSIX
• Documentation and sample applications 
• One year technical support and assistance in conformance testing included

¹ for product 7040 0002 only
² for products 7040 001,3-8 only