SFFS022 December 2022 TMS320F28384D , TMS320F28384D-Q1 , TMS320F28384S , TMS320F28384S-Q1 , TMS320F28386D , TMS320F28386D-Q1 , TMS320F28386S , TMS320F28386S-Q1 , TMS320F28388D , TMS320F28388S
Ethernet for Control Automation Technology (EtherCAT®) is an Ethernet-based fieldbus system, invented by Beckhoff Automation™ and is standardized in IEC 61158. All the server nodes connected to the bus interpret, process, and modify the data addressed to them "on the fly", without having to buffer the frame inside the node. This real-time behavior, frame processing and forwarding requirements are implemented by the EtherCAT server controller hardware. EtherCAT does not require software interaction for data transmission inside the servers. EtherCAT only defines the MAC layer while the higher layer protocols and stack are implemented in software on the microcontrollers connected to the ESC. See TMS320F2838x Real-Time Microcontrollers with Connectivity Manager for additional details on ECAT. The following tests can be applied as diagnostics for this module (to provide diagnostic coverage on a specific function):