We are discussing about a embedded system that should gather a lot of data channels from several EtherCAT devices (slaves). We will achieve a bandwidth for raw user data of approx. 2MByte/s. The application in the user space should read this data, reorganize them and send them with a proprietary protocol over another ethernet interface.
We plan to use an embedded linux and a EtherCAT master library (like IcH EtherCAT Master). And now my questions: What are the minimum hardware requirements to meet this plan? Do you believe that a small embedded linux will meet this requirements? (modules with freescale MPC5200, 400MHz, 100MBit eth nic, ...) Where are the bottle necks in this system? Yours sincerely Friedbert Widmann Dipl.-Inform. Software-Engineer _______________________________________________ etherlab-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.etherlab.org/mailman/listinfo/etherlab-users
