Blog - acontis

September 29, 2024

acontis Celebrates 20 Years of ETG Membership

This week marks a significant milestone for acontis technologies—we are celebrating 20 years since becoming member #123 of the EtherCAT Technology Group (ETG) on September 29, 2004.

August 15, 2024

Symmetric Multiprocessing (SMP) and Asymmetric Multiprocessing (AMP)

Explore the dynamics of Symmetric and Asymmetric Multiprocessing to leverage multicore processors for enhanced computing performance, diving into the intricacies of SMP’s resource sharing and AMP’s independent processing capabilities.

August 1, 2024

Future-proof automation with EtherCAT

This is the first part of a short series of articles which highlights some of the key benefits that our customers report to us when moving from classic field-busses like CANopen or DeviceNet to EtherCAT.

March 11, 2024

Understanding Real-Time Hypervisors

This article introduces the basic concepts and benefits of Real-Time Hypervisors in modern Industrial Computing and Industrial Controllers.

August 7, 2023

EtherCAT Slave Stack on Linux with FC11xx

This article offers step-by-step instructions on how to implement the EtherCAT Slave Stack on Linux, using either the Beckhoff FC1100 PCI card or the Beckhoff FC1121 PCIe card.

May 15, 2023

EtherCAT Slave Stack on Raspberry Pi 4 with EasyCAT HAT

This article describes how to run EtherCAT Slave Stack on Raspberry Pi 4 with EasyCAT HAT

Real-time Linux + EtherCAT on Advantech IPC

March 20, 2023

Setting up Real-time Linux and EtherCAT Master on an Advantech Embedded IPC

This article describes how to setting up Real-time Linux and EtherCAT Master on an Advantech Embedded IPC

March 15, 2023

Building a Real-time Linux Kernel in Ubuntu with PREEMPT_RT

In this blog article, we explain how to build a Real-time Linux Kernel in Ubuntu with PREEMPT_RT

March 7, 2023

Getting Started with EtherCAT® Using EC-Master on STM32MP135F-DK by STMicroelectronics

We are proud to announce that the acontis EtherCAT Master Software EC-Master now supports the STM32MP135F-DK from STMicroelectronics

March 1, 2023

Setting up Ubuntu Linux 22.04 for Real-time Performance with EtherCAT

Ubuntu 22.04 now includes a real-time Linux kernel based on kernel v5.15 with the PREEMPT-RT patch. We take a look at how easy it is to add this real-time Linux kernel, and then test the performance for EtherCAT applications.

November 27, 2022

EtherCAT® EC-Master stack on Raspberry Pi 4

We are proud to announce that the acontis EtherCAT Master Software EC-Master now supports the BROADCOM® System-on-Chip (SoC) BCM2711 as used on the Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4 (CM4).

September 6, 2022

acontis EC-Master vs Open Source (IgH EtherCAT-Master® (EtherLab®) and Simple Open EtherCAT Master (SOEM))

In this blog article, we will take a look at three different EtherCAT Master software stacks. For each option and approach, we will look at the advantages and disadvantages, the main differences between them, and also the expected costs. Included in this comparison is the proprietary solution from acontis technologies the EC-Master and two open source implementations.

August 11, 2021

Real-time qualified Industrial PCs

When using Industrial PCs for control and data acquisition tasks, one of the selection criteria is real-time capability. In this blog we point out possible pitfalls regarding the determinism of IPCs; Furthermore, how to qualify IPCs as well as a variety of pre-qualified out-of-the box solutions.

EtherCAT Master Stack Performance Measurements

2021 年 3 月 29 日

EtherCAT マスタースタックのパフォーマンス

EtherCAT 技術をフィールドバスとして使用する場合、多くの場合、パフォーマンスが決定的な役割を果たします。このページでは、EC-Master の性能と測定結果を示します。

2020 年 9 月 22 日

RT-Linux が Windows にリアルタイム機能を追加するための最適なソリューションである理由

特に産業オートメーション、医療およびデータ収集、計測市場では、ますます多くのアプリケーションが決定論的なリアルタイム動作を必要としています。Windows は、リアルタイムの決定論的操作をネイティブにサポートしていません。ただし、アプリケーションのリアルタイム要件を維持しながら、Windows の機能を最大限に活用するためのソリューションを開発者に提供できる、いわゆる「Windows リアルタイム拡張機能」が多数あります。