FC1121 | EtherCAT slave card, 1 channel, PCIe x1

The FC1121 PCIe (PCI-Express) EtherCAT card can be used to integrate a PC as a slave in an EtherCAT network. The card has an EtherCAT channel with two ports (IN/OUT) and can be used in three ways:

• Under TwinCAT it is simply recognized as an EtherCAT slave and can easily be configured with the required process data. Distributed clocks are supported, and the task is readjusted.
• Users can create their own application (program) based on the Beckhoff EtherCAT slave stack code ET9300 and access the card. Real-time capability is limited in this case.
• Access to the card can be entirely independent; a dll is available from Beckhoff for operation under Windows.

If the requirement for EtherCAT data exchange between systems arises, functionally similar devices such as the EL6695 bridge terminal or the B110 interface of the CX2/5xxx Embedded PC should be considered in addition to the FC11xx cards.