esd electronics, Inc.

esd electronics, Inc proudly announces new addition to their EtherCAT® product line; the EtherCAT® Master software - designed with respect to high performance, small resource usage and scalability.

EtherCAT® is an Ethernet-based fieldbus protocol optimized for high-speed, real-time industrial control based on a Master/Slave configuration. The EtherCAT® Master device requires only a standard Ethernet MAC, even without dedicated communication co-processor.

CAN-PCI/405-2
esd electronics, Inc is pleased to introduce the CAN - PCI/405. Designed with a PCI bus for the AMCC PowerPC 405, this board operates at 200 MHz. The board is equipped with 32 Mbyte SDRAM and 2 Mbyte Flash. The CAN - PCI/405 uses PCI bus mastering to achieve high throughput and to relieve the main CPU.

This board provides two fully ISO 11898 compliant CAN interfaces based on SJA1000 CAN controllers, and high-resolution hardware timestamps. Optionally, the CAN - PCI/405 offers an adapter board that accesses two additional CAN interfaces. The CAN interfaces allow a data transfer rate of 1 Mbit/s and are electrically isolated. Software drivers are available for Windows, Linux, SGIIRIX6.5.

CAN-PCIe/200
esd electronics, Inc is proud to announce a new product, CAN-PCIe/200, a PCI Express hardware interface for Controller Area Network (CAN) designed to the highest standards for industrial applications. This is a low cost, fully ISO 11898 compliant passive CAN interface board for PCI Express with one CAN interface (optionally two CAN interfaces) that allow data transfer rates up to 1 Mbit/s.

The CAN interfaces are electrically isolated and the bit rate can be set by software. Software drivers are available for Windows, Linux, and QNX.

Complimentary Webinar - CANopen Fundamentals

esd electronics, Inc hosted a complimentary webinar on Thursday, March 12, 2009. In this overview of the CANopen specification, designers gain a fundamental understanding of the platform, advantages and disadvantages, and the future of the standard. We also take a focused look at device profiles, including an actual multi-networked application, exploring the various communication layers and optimizing them for industrial control applications. Please register now -

CAN, CANopen, J1939 Literature esd electronics, Inc is also pleased to report the release of three exciting publications:


A Comprehensible Guide to J1939 by Wilfried Voss is the first work combining profound information on the J1939 message format and network management with a high level of readability. SAE J1939 is a higher-layer protocol based on Controller Area Network (CAN) and has become the accepted industry standard and the vehicle network technology of choice for off-highway machines in applications such as construction, material handling, and forestry machines.	A Comprehensible Guide to Controller Area Network by Wilfried Voss represents the most thoroughly researched and most complete work on CAN available in the marketplace. It includes A Brief History of CAN, Main Characteristics, Message Frame Architecture, Message Broadcasting, Bus Arbitration, Error Detection & Fault Confinement, CAN Physical Layer, and more...	Embedded Networking with CAN and CANopen by Olaf Pfeiffer, Andrew Ayre, and Christian Keydel provides a detailed look at both CAN and CANopen; this book examines those technologies in the context of embedded networks. CANopen is a higher layer protocol based on CAN that provides the means to apply CAN features to industrial-strength applications - particularly users that demand a high degree of safety or reliability requirements (e.g. medical engineering, robots, lifts and transportation systems).