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Ethernet is emerging as the preferred industrial communication platform upon which a multitude of protocols and solutions specially targeted at industrial communication requirements have been developed. This paper concentrates on a set of protocols popularly referred to as the Real-time Ethernet protocols and analyses two key technologies, namely PROFINET IRT and EtherCAT. The real-time performance characteristics of PROFINET IRT and EtherCAT is compared by looking into what factors affect their performance in a set of realistic scenarios. The goal is to provide a scientifically solid study on this subject where many presentations are seriously flawed by basic mistakes, misunderstandings or biased views. The detailed analysis presented here shows that EtherCAT has a performance advantage over PROFINET IRT and the reasons for this are discussed.
Published in:
Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation, 2008. ETFA 2008. IEEE International Conference on
Date of Conference: 15-18 Sept. 2008
- Page(s):
- 408 - 415
- E-ISBN :
- 978-1-4244-1506-9
- Print ISBN:
- 978-1-4244-1505-2
- INSPEC Accession Number:
- 10251123
- Conference Location :
- Hamburg
- Digital Object Identifier :
- 10.1109/ETFA.2008.4638425
- Product Type:
- Conference Publications
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