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thanhtam-h / soem-w5500-rpi

Realtime ethercat master for Raspberry pi
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How to get an EtherCAT slave? #7

Closed littleggghost closed 5 years ago

littleggghost commented 5 years ago

Hi, @thanhtam-h Thanks for your share and we all know how to make an EtherCAT master now, but here the question is: How to make an EtherCAT slave that can test the communication? I can't check the communication if no slave runs. Could we build a slave on rpi or if there is any kind of slave board on sale? Hoping your good progress on slave that can achieve a close loop of EtherCAT! Thanks again.

thanhtam-h commented 5 years ago

If you read post on my blog you will see that I recommend to use XMC4800 Relax kit. It is cheap and easy to use, http://www.simplerobot.net/2018/06/rpi-ethercat-master-picat.html This project is only for master development, slave development is out of its scope

littleggghost commented 5 years ago

I thought you would build a new repository for slave, but now it seems we don't need to. The Infineon might be more easy to use.