Lattice industrial Ethernet module is Sercos III enabled

Lattice Semiconductor is offering its ECP3 FPGA-enabled Sercos III module for real-time industrial networking applications.

Sercos is a digital bus that interconnects motion controls, drives, I/O, sensors and actuators for numerically controlled machines and systems. It is designed for the high-speed serial communication of standardized closed-loop real-time data over Industrial Ethernet.

The Sercos III real-time Ethernet evaluation kit consists of two boards (FPGA module and base board), plus an optional expansion module. It is designed in particular for test implementations and performance measurements of Sercos III slave devices based on the SERCON100S slave IP core in combination with the LatticeMico32 soft microprocessor and other optional system functions.

The FPGA module consists of an ECP3-35 FPGA, 8Mbyte flash and 8Mbyte DRAM.

The base board has 16DI and 16DO, all with status LEDs, an RS232 interface, various switches and the standardized bi-color Sercos III diagnostic LED. The board is supplied with 24VDC or 5VDC.

A socket for expansion modules allows the addition of more functions or interfaces, such as analogue 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.

Sercos International will demonstrate the Sercos III networking platform at this week’s SPS/IPC/Drives show, November 22-24 in Nuremberg, Germany.