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Industrial Ethernet Solution 

Ilmin Won 

Hilscher Korea 

Hilscher Korea Inc. Date Oct.21.10

Company Profile 

Intelligent Solutions for Industrial Communication 

� Standard Products 

(PC cards, OEM modules, Gateways, ASICs) 

� Custom Design and Manufacturing 

� ASIC Design Service 

� Consulting, Support and Training 

Foundation 1987, Hattersheim/Frankfrut am Main 

Subsidiaries China, France, India, Italy, Japan, Korea, Swiss, USA 

ASIC Design Center Hilscher SoC Technology GmbH / Berlin 

Development Germany, Hilscher Embedded / East-Switzerland 

Develop.&Test Center Bulgaria 

CEO Hans-Jürgen Hilscher 


Company Profile 

Headquarters in Hattersheim am Main / Germany 

with sales, development, support and manufacturing 

Subsidiaries in Italy, France, USA, Switzerland, Japan, China, 

India and Korea as sales offices with local support and local 

development. 

Distributors and Partner worldwide as sales offices 

Above 4,000 active customers worldwide in 2008 

Above 110,000 sold units in 2008 

(PC cards, OEM products, Gateways, customized products) 


History Hilscher 

2009 Foundation Hilscher Korea 

2008 Foundation Hilscher India 

2007 Foundation Hilscher Embedded / East Switzerland 

2007 Foundation Hilscher DTC / Bulgaria 

2006 20 years of innovative and successful 

Technology at Hilscher 

2006 Foundation Hilscher China 

2006 Foundation Hilscher SOC / Germany 

2005 Start with ASIA Expansion / Foundation Hilscher Japan 

2004 ASIC design based on <strong>netX</strong> technology 

and new RealTime Ethernet Technology 

1995 - 2004 Focusing on products for the 

industrial communication (Fieldbus) 

1991 - 1995 Projects for the automotive industry and plant 

engineering 

1986 - 1991 Development and production of customized 

solutions for the machine building industry 


Hilscher Product Portfolio 

Ready-to-use products 

PC Cards 

� Fieldbus & 

Real-Time- 

Ethernet 

� Various 

hardware 

interfaces 

(PCI, PC/104, 

etc.) 

� Ready-to-use 

hardware for 

Industrial PCs 

Gateways 

� Connect 

different 

networks with 

Hilscher 

protocol 

converters 

(„Gateways“) 

� Fieldbus, Real- 

Time-Ethernet 

and serial 

networks 

Slot-PLC 

� All-In-One 

solution: 

Fieldbus 

interface and 

PLC 

functionality 

� Combination of 

hardware- and 

software-based 

PLC 

Network 

Analyzer 

� Measure delay 

& jitter in Real- 

Time-Ethernet 

environment 

� Open 

Application 

Interface (API) 

to tap data 

stream directly 


Hilscher Product Portfolio 

Products for Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) 

Communication 

Modules 

� For integration in 

customer‘s own product 

e.g. barcode scanner 

� As Fieldbus or Real- 

Time-Ethernet interface 

ASIC: <strong>netX</strong> 

� Multi-protocol network 

controller <strong>netX</strong> 

� Fieldbus or Real-Time- 

Ethernet communication 

� ARM9 CPU for 

customer’s own 

application 

HMI Terminal 

� Powerful components 

for customer’s HMI 

system 

� PLC functionality, 

Fieldbus communication 

and Visualisation 


<strong>netX</strong> Overview 

Performance 

ARM 926 

LCD / RTC 

ADC 

PWM / Encoder 

ARM 966 

IO-Link 

130nm - Technology 

180nm - Technology 

No CPU 

No Peripheral 

Low End 


(Slave) 

Co-processor 

applications with 

existing firmware 

High End 


(Master) 

Communication and 

Control 

1 2 3 4 

Communicaton Channels 


<strong>netX</strong>500/100 – networx on chip 

RS232 

UART 

UART 

UART 

IEEE 

1588 

SysTime 

RTC 

Battery backup 

USB 

USB 

Timer 

IRQ 

ser. EPROM 

SPI 

I2C 

32 KB RAM 

32 KB RAM 

32 KB RAM 

32 KB RAM 

16 KB RAM 

32 KB ROM 

I/Os 

GPIO 

Data 

Switch 

Memory 

Controller 

SDRAM 

FLASH 

Ethernet 

Fieldbus 

xMAC 

xPEC 

Cache I/D 

16/8 KB 

ARM926EJ 

+MMU 

8KB TCM 

ETM9 

Debug 

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PHY 

Extension 

DPM 

Host 

Peripherals 

RTE 

Ethernet 

Fieldbus 

PHY 

xMAC 

xPEC 

GDC 

Display 

Fieldbus Motor 

xMAC 

xPEC 

PWM 

ADC 

Fieldbus 

xMAC 

xPEC 

<strong>netX</strong> 100 

High end 

communication 

interface 



Control 

HMI

<strong>netX</strong>500/100 – networx on chip 

� ARM 926EJ Communication Controller with MMU, JTAG and ETM 

� 144 KByte RAM in 5 Blocks 

� Two Ethernet channel with integrated PHYs 

� Two channel for traditional field bus (<strong>netX</strong>500 only) 

� 8 / 16 Bit Dual-Port-Memory or Extension bus interface 

� GDC Controller (<strong>netX</strong>500 only) 

� RT Clock (<strong>netX</strong>500 only) 

� Housing (345 Pins, PBGA 22 x 22 mm) 

� ROM based Real-Time-Operating-System 

� PWM and ADC for Motor control 

� 3 FMMU and 4 SyncManager for EtherCAT 


<strong>netX</strong>50 – networx on chip 

I/Os ser. EPROM Peripheral RS232 USB 

GPIO 

SPI 

I2C 

IEEE 

1588 

SysTime 


Low end 


Interface 

Multiplexer 32 IO-Lines 

IO-Link 

controller 

Timer 

IRQ 

3x 

UART 

32 KB RAM 

32 KB RAM 

32 KB RAM 

64 KB ROM 

USB 

Data 

Switch 

Memory 

Controller 

SDRAM 

Flash 

Ethernet 

Fieldbus 

xMAC 

xPEC 

ARM926EJ 

ARM926 ARM966 

+MMU 

8KB TCM 

ETM9 

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PHY 

Extension 

32 Bit DPM DPM 

Host 

Peripherals 

RTE + 

Ethernet 

Fieldbus 

PHY 

xMAC 

xPEC 

DMA 

JTAG 

Debug

<strong>netX</strong>50 – networx on chip 

� ARM 966 Communication Controller without MMU 

� 96 KByte RAM in 3 Blocks 

� Two Fieldbus / Ethernet channels with integrated PHYs 

� 8 / 16 / 32 Bit Dual-Port-Memory interface 

� Additional DMA Controller and 8 Port IO-Link Controller 

� Enhanced Hardware Features for Host Interface, Interrupts, 

Semaphores, Timer Unit 

� Small Housing (256 Pins, PBGA 17 x 17 mm) 

� Software Compatible with <strong>netX</strong> 100 / 500 (need a recompile) 

� ROM based Real-Time-Operating-System and TCP/IP-Stack 

� 8 FMMU and 8 SyncManager for EtherCAT 


<strong>netX</strong> Development Board 

� NXSTK 50-RE 

� NXSTK 50-FB 

� <strong>netX</strong>-Insider´s Guide auf CD 

� Integrated Debug-Interface 

� HITOP-Development-Tool from Hitex 

with integrated GNU-Compiler 

� NXHX 500-RE 

� NXHX 50-RE 

� Complete schematic as basis for your own hardware development 


<strong>netX</strong> Tools 

� Cooperation with hitex: 

hitex will fully support <strong>netX</strong> with their ARM tools 

� Tantino – JTAG Debugger with USB interface 

� Tanto – high end Debugger / ETM Tracer with USB / Ethernet interface 

� HiTOP supports special <strong>netX</strong> registers 

� HiROSS supports rcX objects 


Hilscher Gateway Solutions 

Connect different industrial networks easily 

netTAP100 (IP20) / 

netBRICK (IP67) 

� Real-Time-Ethernet – 

Fieldbus 

� Real-Time-Ethernet – 

Serial 

� Fieldbus – Fieldbus 

� Fieldbus – Serial 

netTAP50 

� Ethernet (1-Port) – 

Fieldbus 

� Serial – Fieldbus 

� Serial – Ethernet 

netLINK 50-MPI 

� Ethernet – 

PROFIBUS MPI 

� NEW: 

netLINK50-MPI-ATVISE 

with web visualization 

Modbus RTU, 

3964R, ASCII 


Featured Networks 

Fieldbus 

Ethernet 

Serial 

�PROFIBUS-DP 

�CANopen 

�DeviceNet 

�CC-Link 

�POWERLINK 

�EtherNet/IP 

�PROFINET IO 

�EtherCAT 

�Modbus TCP 

�ASCII 

�Modbus RTU 

�Custom, programmable per netSCRIPT 


Gateway: netTAP100 

netTAP100 - example of use: 

� Suitable for complex protocol conversions e.g. Fieldbus, Real-Time-Ethernet and 

Serial protocols. 


Conversion Available 

Secondary Network Protocol 

DPM 

DNM 

COM 

EIM 

PNM 

ECM 

ECS 

EIS 

S3S 

PNS 

OMB* 

PLS 

DPS 

COS 

DNS 

ASC RTU* NSC DPS COS DNS CCS DPM DNM COM 

Primary Network Protocol 

available 

not applicable 

*client/server,master/slave 

xxM – master, xxS - slave 


Custom Serial Protocols 

�netSCRIPT 

�Lua 

�Based on popular language Lua 

�Editor, Debugger, 

Syntax-Checker all in SYCON.net 

�Scripting language 

�Open, free and small footprint 

�Community maintained @ www.lua.org 

�Lua on netTAP = netSCRIPT-serial 

�Lua runtime adapted to netTAP’s OS 

�Periodically called in millisecond range 

�Advanced serial port communication library 

�Advanced primary network IO data access library 


Easy Programming 

open 

send 

receive 

… 

… 

… 

… 

conf={baudrate = 115200, 

dataBits=8, 

parityMode=port.PARITY_NONE, 

stopBits=1)} 

p = PortOpen(conf) 

p:PortSend("Hello World") 

p:PortReceive(20, true, false) 

… 

rxErr = p:IsReceiveDone() 


Gateway: netBRICK 

NEW: rugged-line IP67-Gateway 

� Installation in harsh industrial environments: IP67-Specification, Housing fully 

sealed, M12-screws, UL- and ship certification in preparation. 

Example of use:

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