1. Industrial Ethernet Challenges and
Solutions with FPGA Devices
Learning Zone @
Embedded World 2010
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2. Industrial Ethernet
Challenges and Solutions
With FPGA Devices
Presentation at Embedded World 2010
Frank Iwanitz,
Business Development Manager RTE
March 2010

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Who are Softing? – The Enterprise
Enterprise
Founded in 1979; Public Company since 1997
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Headquarters: Haar / Munich
Stock Exchange Frankfurt
Employees: ca. 250
Turnover: ca. 30 Mio. €
Distributors: World-wide

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Customers Needs & Softings’ Offering
Market demands:
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Support of a number of RTE protocols on the same hardware
Efficient, simple and reasonable priced solutions
Future safe solution.
Softing delivers FPGA-Real-Time Ethernet Module :
Altera® Cyclone® III based solution:
Supports 4 different RTE protocols
Unified Hardware and Software interface
Further enhancements possible by using IP cores
Provides transparent access to standard IT protocols
Competitive price
Very flexible.

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FPGA-Real-Time Ethernet Module - Overview
32 MByte DDR2-RAM
EP3C40F324
(up to 128 MByte)
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56 pin connector
16 pins power
40 pins GPIO
Ethernet PHY 8 MByte Flash
DP 83848 (up to 32 MByte)

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Stacks for FPGA Platform
PROFINET IO Device Conformance Class B (Available)
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EtherNet/IP Adapter (Available)
EtherCAT Slave (Available)
Modbus/TCP Server (Available)
POWERLINK Controlled Node
PROFIBUS DP Slave/Master
CANopen
DeviceNet
…

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Unified Hardware and Software Interfaces
Hardware interface:
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Ethernet Interface as defined by the various
RTE User Organizations (Transceiver, LED)
DP RAM or Modbus/RTU as interface to the target
Others possible
Software interface:
Simple Device Application Interface
Same interface for all supported protocols
Portable code enables simple integration in target
environment
Support of various hardware interfaces
(DP RAM, Modbus/RTU, others)

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Proof of Concept
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Thank You For Your Interest.
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Thank You
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