acontis technologies

acontis technologies is a leading provider of EtherCAT Technology, Windows real-time software, and real-time Virtualization/Hypervisor Technology. Known for high-quality products "Made in Germany", acontis technologies GmbH has achieved a leading position in the fast-growing EtherCAT market. Their software is the basis for more than 1.5 million EtherCAT controllers worldwide. Since 2004, acontis has offered the EC-Master EtherCAT Main Device software and has expanded its portfolio to provide a complete range of EtherCAT products. As an active member of the EtherCAT Technology group, acontis stays updated with the latest EtherCAT developments. With extensive experience in EtherCAT and real-time Hypervisor software, acontis offers products for real-time Ethernet communication and running real-time operating systems alongside Windows. Their strong distribution network ensures local sales and consulting across Asia, Europe, and Oceania, providing technical consultation to generate the best solutions for customers.

Products offered by acontis technologies

EtherCAT Master Stack software solution: Available for Linux, Windows, VxWorks, FreeRTOS™, On time RTOS-32, QNX, eT-Kernel, RTX, INtime, Xenomai, etc.

• EC-Engineer: Modern software tool to configure and analyze EtherCAT networks, integrated EtherCAT MainDevice for online functions and diagnosis, and EtherCAT simulation tool for configuration checks and validation. EC-Engineer Web offers similar functions based on web technology
• EC-Simulator: Virtualizes EtherCAT networks by simulating EtherCAT SubDevice devices to run EtherCAT MainDevice applications without real hardware
• EC-Lyer: EtherCAT diagnosis and error detection tool
• EC-Inspector: Troubleshooting and monitoring tool for EtherCAT networks
• EC-Monitor: Continuously monitors EtherCAT networks to collect data for system control, predictive maintenance, and more, providing data in an easy-to-use format for SCADA systems
• EC-STA: Test Application for SubDevice software development and production testing
• System-wide communication with theEtherCAT Automation Protocol (EAP)

acontis technologies in STMicroelectronics Ecosystem

acontis and ST have a strong technical partnership to develop on new hardware and realize last EtherCAT controller systems using current hardware. Acontis is a perfect partner for customers who want to use the EtherCAT technology in their products, covering direct offers for MainDevices, tools and also enabling much faster implementation of EtherCAT SubDevices.

acontis EC-Master Software supports the Arm Cortex®-A7 chip as used on the STM32MP135F-DK Board from STMicroelectronics.

The implementation is running in the OpenSTLinux Linux distribution provided by ST, and support is available for both the included Linux Network Driver and the acontis optimized Real-time Driver.

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