EtherCAT Master Stack

HMS offers in cooperation with acontis technologies an EtherCAT Master stack to fast and easily implement EtherCAT based controllers. The EtherCAT Master stack is designed and specifically optimized to run on various embedded (real time) operating systems.

Implementations are already available for: Microsoft Windows CE, Wind River VxWorks, On Time RTOS-32, QNX Neutrino RTOS, IntervalZero RTX, TenAsys INtime for Windows, Linux with RT Preempt Patch (Kernel V2.6.24 and higher), Microsoft Windows XP and Windows 7 (non-real-time capable version).

Features and Benefits

• Compliant to the EtherCAT Master Class Directive according to ETG.1500
• Two product editions available: Class A (Full Featured) and Class B (Basic Features)
• Reliable, field-tested and robust implementation for various CPU architectures like x86, ARM, PowerPC and others; well proven in more than 40 customer applications worldwide
• Operating system and compiler independent, optimized for SMP multi-core operation (symetric multi-processing)
• High performance with low CPU load and small memory footprint, no file system required