acontis is the leading provider of EtherCAT MainDevice software - with a comprehensive software portfolio of embedded software as well as tools for the realization of EtherCAT networks The acontis EC-Master has been used very successfully in thousands of applications worldwide for many years - in a wide variety of control systems in industrial automation, medical technology, transportation, aerospace and many other industries.
The EC-Master from acontis is specially optimized for operation with embedded operating systems or real-time operating systems and is available for a wide range of operating systems, network interfaces and CPUs or microcontrollers. It is characterized by its modular structure and simple integration into the customer application: The interfaces of the respective modules are diclosed, the subcomponents can therefore be exchanged as required and adapted to the respective requirements.
By using the acontis Real-Time Ethernet drivers (link layer), short cycle times can be guaranteed even on systems with limited computing power.
Key features at a glance
- Class A and Class B, each compliant with ETG.1500 MainDevice Classes
- Feature Pack Hot Connect (with and without DistributedClock)
- Feature Pack Cable Redundancy (with and without DistributedClock)
- Feature Pack External Synchronization
- Further feature packs and options available for EoE (Ethernet over EtherCAT), EAP (EtherCAT Automation Protocol) and others.
- Operating systems: Windows, Linux, QNX, VxWorks, INTime, INTEGRITY, Xenomai, RTX64 and many more.
- Architectures: x86 (32 and 64 bit), ARM (32 and 64 bit), RISC and PowerPC
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