Description
Section III
EtherCAT IP Core Description: Installation, Configuration, Design flow, Interface specification
Version 2.2.1 Date: 2008-09-01
LEGAL NOTICE
LEGAL NOTICE
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Features
- and interfaces of the physical layer with its two alternatives Ethernet and EBUS are explained afterwards. Finally, the details of the functional units of an ESC like FMMU, SyncManager, Distributed Clocks, Slave Information Interface, Interrupts, Watchdogs, and so on, are described. Since Section I is common for all Beckhoff ESCs, it might describe features which are not available in a specific ESC. Refer to the feature details overview in Section III of a specific ESC to find out which features.