Cyclone® II / III / IV FPGA

Programmable logic offers the ultimate in flexibility and the Cyclone® family of devices have been optimised for low cost and low power enabling developers to leverage all the advantages of FPGA without having to compromise on performance or cost. Cyclone® III / IV FPGAs offer you an unprecedented combination of low power, high functionality, and low cost to maximize your competitive edge.

These industry leading FPGA devices from Altera® can be configured to deliver a wide range of functions including EtherCAT slave controllers.

You can create your own custom system with the EtherCAT IP core (available from Beckhoff).

EtherCAT IP core features in Cyclone FPGA:

• Scaleable EtherCAT Slave controller
• Unsynchronized Slave for IO devices
• Full featured EtherCAT Slave with distributed clocks for Drive applications
• CoE (CAN application protocol over EtherCAT) software stack and slave application executed on the versatile Nios® II embedded processor
• Optional 8/16/32 Bit host interface for connection to external application microcontroller
• FPGAs can support additional custom digital logic or interfaces required by your system

Cyclone® FPGA devices can also offer a wide range of functionality (e.g., microprocessors, DSP, custom logic, etc.) and interfaces (e.g. CAN, PWM, RS232, PCI, PCI Express, etc.) to address a very wide range of applications.

For information on slave controller IP, EtherCAT slave development kits please refer to EtherCAT IP core for Altera® FPGAs ET1810 (Beckhoff), EtherCAT evaluation kits: EL98xx (Beckhoff), MercuryCode / DBC3C40 development board (EBV Elektronik), etc.