Beckhoff White-Paper: Vom Feldbus zu EtherCAT

Fieldbus technology seems to provide a number of Advantages compared to Ethernet on the I/O Level: the technology well accepted and a large number of devices is available. But now high performance Ethernet solutions like EtherCAT appear and challenge the fieldbus systems. Do the additional features justify the step towards the new technology? The paper discusses the commonalities and differences of legacy fieldbus Systems and EtherCAT. A typical Migration path is shown as well as the road map of the EtherCAT market introduction.

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members-no Beckhoff White-Paper: Vom Feldbus zu EtherCAT DE PDF Nov 01, 2004 0,41 MB