Overview
The FECA-01 module supports EtherCAT network protocol. EtherCAT is a Real Time Ethernet technology which aims to maximize the use of the full duplex Ethernet bandwidth. It overcomes the overhead normally associated with Ethernet by employing on the fly processing hardware. An EtherCAT bus consists of a master system and up to 65535 slave devices, connected together with standard Ethernet cabling. The FECA-01 supports 10/100 Mbps transfer rate with network connections made with CAT 5 wiring and RJ-45 connectors. Designed for daisy chain configuration on an EtherCAT network.