Overview The QorIQ® communications processors include single-, dual-, quad- and multicore processor architectures with integrated support for communications protocols such as EtherCAT. The new programmable logic controller (PLC) reference platform is equipped to ease development of industrial control systems PLC reference platform implements the KPA (koenig-pa GmbH) EtherCAT Master protocol with ISaGRAF Firmware and QNX Neutrino® RTOS on the high-performance QorIQ P1025 processor Supported by powerful development tools from all four companies, including the KPA EtherCAT Studio, ISaGRAF 6 Workbench, QNX Momentics® Tool Suite, and CodeWarrior® Development Suit Features Integrated ISaGRAF Firmware, KPA EtherCAT Master stack and QNX Neutrino RTOS on the QorIQ ® P1 Tower ® module EtherCAT master protocol and customer control application run simultaneously on a single QorIQ P1025 processor to deliver one millisecond EtherCAT master cycle time QorIQ P1 processors can also provide simultaneous support for complex applications, as well as additional industrial protocols like PROFINET, PROFIBUS and EtherNet/IP ™ Powerful development tools include the KPA EtherCAT Studio, ISaGRAF 6 Workbench, QNX Momentics Tool Suite, and CodeWarrior ® Development Suite ISaGRAF 6 Workbench and Firmware kernel can fully support all IEC 61499 and IEC 61131-3 standard PLC programming languages Software and hardware developed on TWR-P1025 can be easily deployed on a range of QorIQ P1 processors, including the P1012, P1021, P1016 and P1025 processors QorIQ P1 processor family offers pin-compatible single-core variants for cost reduction, and dual-core variants which scale up to 3,700 million instructions per second (MIPS) for more complex control algorithms. Customers may distribute processing functions across two cores, or isolate real-time control functions on one core while running maintenance and communications functions on the other core. Commercial EtherCAT Master stack available from KPA Commercial Neutrino RTOS available from QNX Block Diagram Platform Requirements One TWR-P1025 QorIQ Tower Module Target slaves required to run the demo: Beckhoff EK1100 EtherCAT coupler Beckhoff EL1004 4-channel digital input terminal 24 V DC, 3 ms Beckhoff EL2004 4-channel digital output terminal 24 V DC, 0.5 A Beckhoff EL9011 end cap An image of the complete PLC Reference Platform run-time software. Download the PLC Reference Platform evaluation software. ISaGRAF 6 Workbench for offline tools Utility Software (Windows) TeraTerm for RS232 communications USB to UART driver for console port TFTP Server to load images to TWR-P1025 Design Resources
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