KPA EtherCAT Master

KPA EtherCAT Master is a comprehensive product for industrial automation specialists who intend to add high-speed communication capabilities to their applications and solutions. It is a second generation of EtherCAT Master by koenig-pa, implementing a new advanced architecture and several unique features that facilitate better integration and performance increase.

KPA EtherCAT Master is a software stack, which corresponds to all EtherCAT Technology Group standards and has numerous features, which can be used for developing of cost-optimized and powerful PLC on almost any platform (such as Arm/Arm64 or x86/x64) to control EtherCAT I/O produced by any vendor.

EtherCAT Master stack has a modular structure to respond to a challenge of each particular implementation. The modules are grouped in the layers, thereby all functions are clearly separated.

Operating systems
KPA EtherCAT Master is available for numerous operating systems, including Windows, INtime, RTX64, Linux, Xenomai, QNX, VxWorks, FreeRTOS, ITRON as well as OS-less systems.

Hardware extensions
Availability of IP Cores for Xilinx and for Intel (Altera), AMD, ARM FPGAs, PRUss co-program for Texas Instrument Sitara CPUs (AM3xx and AM4xx) increases productivity and data processing efficiency.

Meets EtherCAT Technology Group (ETG) standards
KPA EtherCAT Master can be delivered as standard or customized feature packages. Two standard packages are available according ETG.1500 standard: Class A (Standard package) and Class B (Basic package). Moreover, koenig-pa GmbH introduces Premium package, which integrates various additional features for creating innovative applications.

Features

• Cable Redundancy (ETG)
• Hot Connect (ETG)
• TCP/UDP Mailbox Gateway (ETG)
• External DC Synchronization (ETG)
• Explicit Device Identification
• CAN DBC driver
• Multimaster
• VCOM driver
• Online configuration
• Master Redundancy
• Hardware timed send
• Hardware Send Scheduler
• Optimized drivers and HW Extensions
• RPC Client
• KPA EtherCAT Python