Ethercat Master (Windows 7) and Slave arduino with Shield EasyCAT

[salcedo01]

Hello

I'm thiniking about to do a small practise module for the univerity for practise Ethercat comunications. My idea is tap into the ethernet port of my PC (Windows 7) as a Ethercat Master (with some software or something else) and use a Shield EasyCAT with arduino like Ethercat Slave. It's possible to do something like this?

I don't have much idea about this terms so any help would well for me. 

Thanks 

[a_clucker]

Hi salcedo01,

Please read this thread, which should address your question. In particular, this comment explains that the NI EtherCAT enables Real-Time (RT) controllers and desktops to act as EtherCAT masters. The NI EtherCAT driver does not enable Windows systems to act as EtherCAT masters, as Windows 7 is not deterministic like RT operating systems are.

You can use the NI EtherCAT driver to communicate with many non-NI slaves using a cRIO, RT Desktop PC, or RT PXI controller. Feel free to let us know if you have further questions.

[salcedo01]

Hello  a_clucker.

Thanks so much for the information. I will keep research on about this thread.Soon you'll have more information about my project.

We keep in touch!!