Thursday, November 25, 2010

Freescale enables EtherCAT on QorIQ, PowerQUICC and i.MX processors

NUREMBERG, GERMANY: Freescale Semiconductor has collaborated with four top protocol and operating systems vendors to offer safety-certifiable industrial automation reference solutions featuring the EtherCAT protocol on QorIQ, PowerQUICC and i.MX processors. Selected processor versions operate without fans in rugged industrial environments.

These three new reference solutions help customers quickly confirm functionality, reliability and performance of a single device that simultaneously runs a complex real-time control application, together with EtherCAT master bridging to another industrial protocol such as PROFIBUS, PROFINET, EtherNet/IP or DeviceNet. The reference software dramatically reduces time-to-market and development cost for safety-certified industrial automation solutions.

Industrial reference solution for QorIQ processor, acontis EtherCAT Master and Green Hills INTEGRITY RTOS

This reference solution consists of the AT-EM EtherCAT master protocol from acontis technologies GmbH, integrated with Green Hills’ safe and secure INTEGRITY real-time operating system, on Freescale’s P2020 QorIQ multicore processing platform. The P2020 processor integrates extensive connectivity with fanless operation for up to 3500 MIPS of performance.

“We are pleased to provide our industry-leading EtherCAT master stack solution now on the Freescale QorIQ multicore processing platform,” said Stefan Zintgraf, General Manager at acontis technologies.

The acontis AT-EM EtherCAT master offers reliable, robust, hard real-time performance. It includes redundant ring operation and a hot-connect feature pack that enables configuration changes without impacting the operation of attached EtherCAT slave nodes.

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