SERCOS III Ethernet Solution - Xilinx

Xilinx is going to release a Spartan-3 based SERCOS III real-time Ethernet solution, providing other low-cost alternative for industrial networking applications. The SERCOS III master and slave are hosted by a single Xilinx’s Spartan-3 FPGA on the Xilinx industrial networking platform.

SERCOS III combines the established SERCOS real time mechanisms and standardized parameter set with universal communications based on Industrial Ethernet. The hardware-based synchronization is important is motion applications, such as multi-axis machine tools, electronic line shafts in printing machines and packaging machines. SERCOS III has been defined such that any standard Ethernet frame can be transmitted in a non-real time slot, in parallel to the real time processing.

Niladri Roy, Xilinx, said:

Due to its real time capabilities and performance, the SERCOS III interface has become a widely accepted Ethernet-based networking standard worldwide…

The implementation of SERCOS III on the Spartan-3 generation not only adds to our growing library of industrial networking IP, the solution allows for the most optimized application of SERCOS III and effective cost management for a broad spectrum of customers…

SERCOS International e.V. will showcase the Xilinx-based networking platform at this week's Hannover Messe, April 16-20, Hall 9, Stand D23, at the Exhibition Grounds in Hannover, Germany.

Further read: SERCOS International