TIDUEB8C July 2018 – March 2021 TPS274160
The Programmable Real-time Unit and Industrial Communication Sub-System (PRU-ICSS) hardware allows the user to write and run highly-predictable and deterministic software which is able to replace many solutions which are too time critical for a usual microcontroller. This hardware-like behavior enables the eight channel IO-Link master to react very fast and almost free of jitter.
The IO-Link frame-handler requires one PRU per eight channels and can provide 16 channels per ICSS. The often available second ICSS can be used to process something else like real-time Ethernet.