BBB as EtherCAT slave?

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Hello All,
I know that AM335x processor has hardware support to build an EtherCAT slave using PRUs.
I’m not sure if it’s possible to use BBB I/O pins to implement it, maybe with an external PHY.
Could anyone give me a feedback about it? It would be a great application for industrial drives.

Thank you.
GG

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The pins for Ethercat are not supported on the BBB. Also. The Ethercat is removed in the AM3358 processor, the one used on the latest revision.

Gerald

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Maybe can we hope for the next board revision? Ora maybe for ArduinoTRE?

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We have moved to the AM3358. It has no Ethercat. The version of the AM3359 we used was a special binned version. There are no Am3359 that support 1GHz.

The Tre uses the AM3358. Because there are no Am3359 that run at 1GHz.

Gerald

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Hi,

I know that is an old post. I have a BBB with A6A version with AM3359. In this web page, I can see that this model support Ethercat, but you mentioned that the AM3359 was a special verison. Is it compatible with EtherCAT ?

Thanks.

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Yes

Gerald

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I’m working on a board with EtherCAT support. It’s based on beaglebone’s design, but looks like Raspberry Pi.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1X9RrbkUpiTQ-S6Acken-5fv7yYq2DTr_1zOjf6zabn0/edit?usp=sharing

I plan to produce 10 samples of it in November.

eric…@gmail.com於 2014年8月26日星期二UTC+8下午10時40分18秒寫道：