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<strong>EtherCAT</strong> is:<br />

-Faster<br />

- Synchronization<br />

- Industrial Ethernet<br />

-Flexible<br />

- Easier to configure<br />

- Cost effective<br />

- Easier to implement<br />

- Well proven<br />

- Open<br />

- Conformance<br />

- Safety<br />

- Redundancy<br />

-Versatile<br />

Functional Principle: Ethernet „on the<br />

•<br />

Car<br />

27<br />

fly“<br />

Analogy Fast Train:<br />

– “Train” (Ethernet Frame) does not stop<br />

– Even when watching “Train” through narrow window one<br />

sees the entire “Train”<br />

– “Car” (Sub-Telegram) has variable length<br />

– One can “extract” or “insert” single “persons” (Bits) or entire<br />

“groups” (Bytes) – even multiple groups per train<br />

© <strong>EtherCAT</strong> Technology Group, 2009 8

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