In today’s industrial communications environment, factories want easier-managed networks with higher bandwidth and performance at a lower cost of ownership. Open Industrial Ethernet standards can alleviate your struggles to enable Ethernet-based communications on existing fieldbus and new products. Refer to Table 1 for a list of popular fieldbus and Industrial Ethernet protocol standards.
| Table 1. Popular Industrial Fieldbus and Industrial Ethernet Protocols | |
| Serial Protocols | Ethernet-Based Protocols |
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| CANopen | EtherCAT |
| CANopen | Ethernet Powerlink |
| DeviceNet/ControlNet | Ethernet/IP |
| LonWorks | Lon over Ethernet |
| Modbus/RTU | Modbus/TCP |
| PROFIBUS | PROFINET |
| SERCOS I/II | SERCOS III |
| - | VARAN |
| CC-Link | CC-Link IE |
| Fieldbus Foundation H1 | Fieldbus Foundation HSE |
Altera and our partners offer a comprehensive portfolio of Industrial Ethernet solutions and IP that provide you with a high degree of design flexibility. This enables you to reconfigure the FPGA to release multiple Industrial Ethernet-based products using the same FPGA hardware platform. With fewer board re-spins required, along with long FPGA product life cycles and your ability to migrate IP to new generations of Alters FPGAs, the benefits of using Altera FPGAs translate into overall cost savings, a faster time to market for your products, and the ability to change/update product in the field. Table 2 shows Industrial Ethernet solutions from Altera partners.
| Table 2. Industrial Ethernet Solutions | |||||||
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EtherNet/IP |
EtherCAT |
Powerlink |
PROFINET |
Modbus/TCP |
SERCOS III |
IEEE 1588 |
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| Softing |
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| Beckhoff |
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| Automata |
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| MorethanIP |
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| Zhaw |
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Related Industrial Ethernet Links
- Altera® Industrial Solutions
- Altera Industrial Solutions Partners
- Industrial Standards Trade Organizations
- Cyclone III FPGA Industrial Development Kits
- Get the Industrial Ethernet Solutions Sheet (PDF)
- Download the Industrial Ethernet Solutions White Paper (PDF)
- View the "Designing with Multiple Industrial Ethernet Standards on a Single Hardware Platform" Webcast
- Watch the "Support Multiple Industrial Ethernet Protocols With a Single FPGA" Video
- Industrial Ethernet Solutions (OIES1110) Online Course
