Easy Slave
The Sercos EasySlave is an FPGA-based single-chip controller, enabling inexpensive development of simple Sercos III slave devices such as I/O. I/O applications are synchronized in the Sercos cycle. An IP core is provided as a netlist for the Xilinx Spartan-6 FPGA family. The IP core contains all the functions of a
Sercos slave connection, including the associated software library for I/O devices (e.g., analog inputs, encoders). The user can add IP cores for I/O from Xilinx and his own application code and can integrate the controller into his own board. A reference design is available.
 Technical support for the EasySlave is provided by Steinbeis Transfer Center for Systems Technology (TZS) in Esslingen, Germany. TZS offers an EasySlave evaluation kit to facilitate a quick and easy introduction to Sercos slave development. The evaluation kit includes a development board based on a Xilinx Spartan-6 XC6SLX9 FPGA and can be extended using plug-in modules. The evaluation kit includes all other required material and documents (Ethernet cable, power supply, and documentation). Steinbeis-TZS can provide assistance in the integration and commissioning of
EasySlave.
Features and Specifications for EasySlave FPGA-based Single-Chip Controller
- FPGA-based single chip controller containing a reduced
Sercos slave IP core
- Target devices: analog/digital I/Os, simple sensors and actuators
- FPGA-internal RAM for Sercos stack, application and data
- Realtime channel with max. 32 bytes output and max. 32 bytes input data (1 input and 1 output connection)
- Supported cycle times down to 31,25 µs
- Synchronization of application to Sercos cycle
- Parameterization over service channel
- Service channel with hardware support
- IP channel for ARP, Ping and firmware update over TFTP
- Design currently targeted to Xilinx Spartan-6 FPGA series
- FPGA reference design (Xilinx EDK V12.3) and Software-API (Xilinx MicroBlaze / gcc) available
Various EasySlave licensing models are available from
Sercos international, with Sercos member companies offered special prices. In addition, a license-free IP core version (loaded with a bitstream IP core) with a limited functionality is available, under the product name EasySlave-IO. Next >>
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