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Ethernet Solution, Sercos III
Ethernet Solution, Sercos III
Lattice Semiconductor Corporation has recently announced the availability of Sercos III realtime Ethernet Solution. The low cost, low power LatticeECP3 FPGA-enabled Sercos III solution provides a low cost and flexible design alternative for real-time industrial networking applications. The FPGA module consists of a LatticeECP3-35 FPGA, 8 MB flash and 8 MB DRAM. Due to its compact dimensions and its wide bus and I/O interface, the FPGA module can also be integrated as is into Sercos III slave devices. This saves cost and reduces the time to market for slave devices like I/O units or drives. The base board has 16DI and 16DO, all with status LEDs, an RS232 interface, various switches and the standardized bi-colour Sercos III diagnostic LED. The board is supplied with 24 V DC or 5 V DC. A socket for expansion modules allows the addition of more functions or interfaces, such as analog I/O. The FPGA module is supported by the proven Automata Sercos III slave communication stack and test tools such as a master simulator for Windows XP. A sample implementation of the Sercos III I/O profile (FSP-I/O) is available.