Design and Implementation of EtherCAT Slave

EtherCAT is one kind of real-time Ethernet technology used in motion control,which is included by IEC61158 standard and has strict requirements on stability,speed and accuracy.In this paper a solution of EtherCAT slave using Renesas M16 MCU(micro controling unit) M3062LFGPGP and EtherCAT slave module ComX-CA-RE produced by Hilscher was provided.It applies modular design,and effectively improves the quality and speed of device development,and a method to develop standard device is provided.This paper first describes the system architecture,then presents the design of software and hardware,and tests the device by experiments.The device works well.