Protocol
EtherCAT
Lab ready Full lab
Ethernet fieldbus where each slave processes and forwards a circulating frame on the fly for sub-cycle IO updates. Process data, distributed clocks, and mailbox protocols (CoE, FoE, EoE) make up the stack. Topology is typically line or ring with pass-through PHYs.
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realtimefieldbusdistributed-clocksplc
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