A simple and fast internal communication system is highly demanded for future complex
Power Electronics (PE) converters such as multilevel converters. To increase the reliability …

Communication inside a power converter could be beneficial in a variety of ways. It naturally
gives hardware abstraction, meaning that the behavior of power stage terminals is …

Real-time Ethernet (RTE) technologies are becoming increasingly popular, as they provide
high bandwidth and are able to meet the requirements of industrial real-time …

Ethernet Powerlink (EPL) is an industrial Ethernet networking solution commonly used as a
communication network in distributed control and automation systems ranging from simple …

Designed for efficient real time traffic at low cycle times, EtherCAT is known to display
several inefficiencies which include high quality master-slave synchronization. In this paper …

EtherCAT is a real-time Ethernet protocol for factory automation applications that enables
periodic data exchange with cycle times of a few microseconds thanks to the capability to …

Summation frame communication technologies, as represented by protocols like EtherCAT
and Interbus-S, have proven useful for relatively simple applications but are easily stretched …

EtherCAT is a real-time Ethernet protocol mainly designed for periodic real-time
transmission in factory automation. As EtherCAT does not provide efficient mechanisms to …

Industrial network, often referred to as fieldbus, becomes an indispensable component for
intelligent manufacturing systems. Thus, in order to satisfy the real-time requirements of field …

Industrial network, often referred to as fieldbus, becomes an indispensable component for
intelligent manufacturing systems. Thus, in order to satisfy the real-time requirements of field …