第三章数控辨析.ppt

* * * If the line is turned into a ring, there are two communication paths to each device: redundancy. With EtherCAT even without special hardware in the master: a second Ethernet port is sufficient. By using this device exchange at run time (hot swap) is feasible as well. * * Since EtherCAT used precisely adjusted distributed clocks (a feature of the EtherCAT Slave Controller chips), the communication cycle itself does not have to be absolutely equidistant – a small jitter is allowed. Therefore EtherCAT masters do not need a special hardware (like a communication co-processor) and can be im