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SERCON816

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ADDITIONAL SPECIFICATIONS, TOOLS AND SUPPORT

5.1 Additional Specifications

Reference Manual SERCON816

The reference manual (160 pages) for the SERCON816 Asic contains a complete and very detailed spec-

ification of the SERCON816 Asic, including a description of the pinning of the controller, microprocessor

interface, serial interface, telegram processing, master and slave modes, additional modes, control and

RAM data structures, programming examples, electrical and mechanical characteristics of the chip, differ-

ences between SERCON816 and SERCON410B controller.

SERCOS interface specification

The SERCOS interface specification (IEC/EN 61491) contains a detailed description of the transfer medi-

um and physical layer, data transfer and data link layer, protocol structure and data contents, communi-

cation phases, functional handling and error handling, list and description of identifier numbers.

I/O functions are described in a separate document.

5.2 Hardware and Software Components

Master and slave routines (driver software) for the SERCON816 controller are available from several sup-

pliers world-wide. Furthermore different boards for a wide range of computer interfaces are offered, includ-

ing ISA-, VME-, PCI- and PC/104 bus systems.

5.3 Tools

Different development and testing tools are available for SERCOS interface.

These tools include bus monitors, configuration and simulation tools, as well as tools for conformance test-

ing.

For all specification and additional application notes please contact:

Interests Group SERCOS interface e. V.