Microcontroller as a slave

Question

I want to set up an EtherCAT Network, First I have installed IgH EtherCAT Master in my PC (Ubuntu 14.04) and RTAI 4.1 as RTOS

Can I use microcontroller as a slave without any additional devices provided by Backoff or other suppliers like (FPGA, ASIC)

In EtherCAT we have two types of devices A master and many devices to process data on the fly I need the help from someone who know EtherCAT — The Special One, May 25 '15 at 15:37
So you want a microcontroller to run EtherCAT as a slave? Because that is not clear in your question. So what will the slave do? PC master - EtherCAT - Slave. — StainlessSteelRat, May 25 '15 at 15:56
I want to calculate the cycle time using wireshark, PC as a master and the microcontroller as a slave. — The Special One, May 25 '15 at 16:01

sirop · Answer 1 · 2015-12-07T03:47:23.817

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You can install Simple Open EtherCAT Slave or SOES on a microcontroller. SOES supports the Distributed Clock mode.

To estimate the effort of installing the SOES on a microcontroller, have a look at https://bitbucket.org/utwente_bss/soes_arm/wiki/Home . The slave version referred to in the wiki is not the latest but gives you enough hints.

Another option is light ethercat slave. This one is the most hardware independent.

edited Dec 07 '15 at 03:47

answered Dec 06 '15 at 01:32

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Thank you for your respond. Can you please summarize at a very high level the content in the links? – Mahendra Gunawardena Dec 06 '15 at 02:17

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