EL9820, EL9821, EL9830, EL9840 | EtherCAT evaluation kit

The evaluation kits serve as platform for the development of EtherCAT slaves. The piggyback controller board supplied with the kit realises the complete EtherCAT connection with the ASIC ET1100 or on FPGA basis. A programming interface is integrated for the FPGAs. All digital I/O, SPI and asynchronous μController process data interfaces (PDIs) are connected to pin strips and can be selected via PDI selector switch. The SPI interface can optionally be connected with a PIC microcontroller included with the kit or directly to the pin strip. A programming and debugging interface for the controller is also provided. The EL98xx can therefore also be used as platform for the ET9300 EtherCAT Slave Stack Code provided with the evaluation kits. The EL9830 and EL9840 EtherCAT evaluation kits are intended as a hardware platform for the EtherCAT IP core. For this reason, these kits are delivered with a demo version (time-limited binary) of the IP core (16 bit digital I/O).

Technical data	EL9820	EL9821	EL9830	EL9840
Evaluation kit	base board
EtherCAT Slave Controller	ASIC ET1100	ASIC ET1100	Altera FPGA (IP core required)	Xilinx FPGA (IP core required)
EtherCAT piggyback controller board	FB1111-0142 with ASIC ET1100	FB1111-0142 with ASIC ET1100	FB1122 with Altera Cyclone III (EP3C25)	FB1130 with Xilinx Spartan-3E (XC3S1200E)
Software	EtherCAT Slave Stack Code ET9300
Accessories	cables, documentation
Workshop	optionally available as TR8100	includes 1-day workshop for 1 person at Verl, Germany (TR8100)	optionally available as TR8100	optionally available as TR8100