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thanhtam-h / soem-w5500-rpi

Realtime ethercat master for Raspberry pi
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SOEM1.3.0？ #3

Closed frankgp closed 6 years ago

frankgp commented 6 years ago

I found the latest version of SOEM is 1.3.3. ( 1.3.1 -> 1.3.3) Do you have any resean? Using SOEM 1.3.0?

thanhtam-h commented 6 years ago

I started with 1.3.0 for STM32F407 few years ago and later found that 1.3.1 didn't provide much improvement of EtherCAT performance but more platforms support (you may check changelog here https://github.com/OpenEtherCATsociety/SOEM/blob/master/ChangeLog) For the latest added feature on 1.3.3, 'overlapping IOmap', I didn't try but will consider it. Btw, did you build your own an EtherCAT master?

frankgp commented 6 years ago

Thank you for your explain!

Yes! Now I try to make a EtherCAT master for 2 platforms, one is STM32F407 for small RTOS, the other is imx6ul. for imx6ul, the linux+xenomai, I using IGH ethermaster, I think it is better than SOEM. but it cannot portting to MCU, so now I try to using SOEM for both platform.

For STM32F407, I need 2 Ethernet port. for build-in mac, I using it for Modbus/TCP, I need another NIC interface. w5500 method I studied from your repository. (DM9000 also is an senario).

Thank you for your quick feedback!