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Industrial Ethernet Guide - Introduction to Fieldbus Systems
The following is part of A Comprehensible Guide to Industrial Ethernet by Wilfried Voss.Note: One of the fundamental advantages of Industrial Ethernet, besides its vast speed, lies in the fact that it owns all the beneficial features of a standard Fieldbus system and then a bit more. Admittedly, it shares these advantages with a significant number [...]
Industrial Ethernet Guide - World Market For Industrial Ethernet
The following is part of A Comprehensible Guide to Industrial Ethernet by Wilfried Voss.A report, "The World Market for Industrial Ethernet," by the independent UK-based research organization, IMS Research (now part of HIS Inc.), contained data about the total quantity of installed Ethernet nodes.The analyses were divided into regions, product groups, and industries. According to the study, EtherNet/IP had the [...]
Industrial Ethernet Guide - The Costs of Industrial Ethernet
The following is part of A Comprehensible Guide to Industrial Ethernet by Wilfried Voss.“You can’t go to your local computer store and buy an Ethernet router for your machine.” – Advice found at a technology forumThe lowering costs of Ethernet hardware have made Ethernet an increasingly attractive option for industrial networking applications. However, while the costs for [...]
Industrial Ethernet Guide - The Ethernet Technology Plant Of The Future
The following is part of A Comprehensible Guide to Industrial Ethernet by Wilfried Voss.Besides its definite technological advantages for automation and control tasks, Industrial Ethernet offers new perspectives for the manufacturing process that were not possible with other, established industrial networking technologies. For the longest time, access to existing production information was gated by disparate, proprietary, and closed systems.In general, the increased [...]
Industrial Ethernet Guide - The Motivation For Industrial Ethernet
The following is part of A Comprehensible Guide to Industrial Ethernet by Wilfried Voss.The primary motivation for using Industrial Ethernet technologies can be described with only one word: Speed.The Ethernet TCP/IP communication according to IEEE 802.3 supports 100 Mbit/sec over distances of 100 meters (~300 feet) between two devices (100BaseTx) or up to 2,000 meters (~6,000 feet), respectively (100BaseFx). No [...]
Industrial Ethernet Guide - Selecting The "Right" Ethernet Technology
The following is part of A Comprehensible Guide to Industrial Ethernet by Wilfried Voss."I daresay that your best bet is to talk to a vendor that you are used to dealing with and that you trust. Having support when implementing a network is more important than which network you pick.” – Advice found at a technology forumSelecting the “right” [...]
Industrial Ethernet Guide - The Challenges for Industrial Ethernet
The following is part of A Comprehensible Guide to Industrial Ethernet by Wilfried Voss.While Ethernet TCP/IP is a well-established and well-known networking technology, Industrial Ethernet, for various reasons, is still widely regarded as an unknown entity. This statement may appear contradictory to the fact that most of the available protocols already exist for several years (e.g., Modbus/TCP was introduced in 1999), [...]
A Comprehensible Guide to Industrial Ethernet - Introduction
The following is part of A Comprehensible Guide to Industrial Ethernet by Wilfried Voss. Note: The term “Industrial Ethernet” needs further clarification as it may be interpreted as mere “Industrial-Strength” Ethernet. This book uses the term in reference to “Real-Time Industrial Ethernet” (For many engineers in the automation industry, “Industrial-Strength” is not possible without “Real-Time”). The simple and effective design of the standard [...]
Multi-Protocol Communications Processor Connects CAN Bus To Industrial Ethernet
Texas Instruments (TI) has launched the Sitara AMIC110 system on chip (SoC) featuring more than ten Industrial Ethernet protocols. It comes with CAN connectivity.The AMIC110 SoC (system-on-Chip) is a multi-protocol industrial communication processor supporting nearly all Industrial Ethernet variants ranging from Profinet via Ethercat and Sercos III to Powerlink. The 300-MHz chip comes with several serial [...]
Industrial Ethernet Node With Two ARM Cortex-M4 Processor Cores, On-Chip Flash, Analog/Mixed Signal, Integrated PHYs
With the advent of Industrial IoT (Internet of Things) as key technology for cyber-physical systems, Hilscher has developed the next generation of network controllers, building on the success of the netX 51/52, where security is a core product focus. The first member of this new family is the netX 90, which enables higher degrees of integration with [...]