Its a real shame that the PRU's PHY ports did'nt make it to the headers. Not only is it ethercat, its Profinet as well.
TI do have a board ( the ICE ) that has the two PRU ports avaialble ( but ironically not the ethernet ). And theres actually two ethernet ports avaialble on teh chip, and TI has yet another board that has them avaialble. It is what it is. On Saturday, September 28, 2013 4:47:16 AM UTC+12, Gerald wrote: > > EtherCAT is an industrial automation protocol over Etherent. > http://www.ethercat.org/ > EtherCAT is important if you need it. > EtherCAT support is provided by Ethernet PHYs connected to the PRU pins. > These connections are not available on the BBB. > > Gerald > > > > On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 11:33 AM, Amalinda J' Gamage > <[email protected]<javascript:> > > wrote: > >> Dear all, >> >> I notice the new beaglebone doesn't have the EtherCat functionality. Im >> wondering as to what this means. I notice that both have Ethernet so why is >> this Ethercat important? >> >> thank you so much, >> >> -- >> For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "BeagleBoard" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected] <javascript:>. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> > > -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
