AM6442: AM6442

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Hi Harshada,

Harshada Sonawane said:

1) is there a ethercat-stack available to be used

• We have EtherCAT SubDevice examples in Industrial Communications SDK for AM64x - RTOS. We have EtherCAT SubDevice Beckhoff SSC Demo (Application built on top of Beckhoff SSC) and EtherCAT SubDevice Demos (Application built with features added by TI stack on top of Beckhoff SSC).
• The Beckhoff SSC stack is provided by ETG. You can get membership in this group and that gives you access to the Beckhoff SSC stack.
• Following link has the details of the examples based on Beckhoff Stack and TI Stack within the SDK: Industrial Communications Toolkit
• Following link has the details of the firmware features and FWHAL provided in the SDK:  EtherCAT SubDevice FWHAL. 

Harshada Sonawane said:

2) from where and what cost? 

• As mentioned above, the SDK offers EtherCAT based Demos. 
• You can get the EtherCAT stacks from http://www.ethercat.org/
• Do note that the support for EtherCAT HW Accelerator is present in AM64x devices with Feature Code E and F only. Other parts won't support EtherCAT functionality.

Harshada Sonawane said:

3) does it fulfill all the safety-things

• May I know which all safety features you require or are referring to?

Regards,
Aaron

Hi Harshada,

One clarification: The EtherCAT demo does not support on SK-AM64B but requires TMDS64EVM, LP-AM243 or TMDS243EVM for the EtherCAT SubDevice as stated in the instructions Setup

Regards,
Aaron

Hi Harshada,

EtherCAT MainDevice software solution is not offered from TI for Sitara MPU Devices. You can refer to [FAQ] PROCESSOR-SDK-AM64X: EtherCAT MainDevice with TI Sitara MPU Devices for more details on implementing 3rd Party Solutions.

Regards,
Aaron