Ether CAT capacity

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We need a bus communication that requires a minimum of CPU core time and interrupts.
How much of the Ether CAT is realized in HW? Is there a chart for USB etc of code required.

Many thanks in advance!
Elin
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Rick_Nardone
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Hi Rector,

The XMC4800 has a 2 port EtherCAT Slave peripheral included: http://www.infineon.com/cms/en/product/promopages/xmc4300_4800-EtherCAT/#xmc4800

The EtherCAT slave peripheral does most of the work to process EtherCAT frames in real time, so that the 144MHz Cortex-M4f core is mostly free to perform other tasks.

Best,

Rick
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