KPA EtherCAT PCI Board

KPA PCI Interface board (EtherCAT slaves with PCI interface) integrates a PC into an EtherCAT network.

Hardware

• ET1100 ASIC, no CPU for closer synchronization
• Polling and IRQ-handling
• 8 kByte PDO/SDO, 8 FMMUs, 8 Sync Managers
• Transfer rate of 4,2 MByte/s
• Two address switches for position independent addressing

Slave Stack

• Support of multiple boards within one system
• Various Operating Systems (OS):
  • INtime, Linux, RTX, QNX, Windows 7, xPCTarget
• Several mailbox protocols:
  • CoE, EoE, FoE, SoE, VoE 
• Distributed Clocks, SDO Complete Access

Applications

• Automation, automotive test beds, simulation system, etc.
• Start-up development kit for EtherCAT slave application under Windows XP with possibility to port then to target using the same Slave stack API (cross-platform development)

Delivery package

• PCI board with compiled KPA EtherCAT Slave stack
• Documentation and sample applications
• One year of technical support and assistance in conformance testing included