EtherCAT is a high determinisic industrial fieldbus protocol developed by Beckhoff Automation GmbH. An EtherCAT MainDevice (fka master) enables configuration and cyclic/realtime communication with connected SubDevices (fka slaves) library. This library is used to build a deterministic fieldbus network with EtherCAT components.

More info#

DLR-RM has released their EtherCAT MainDev/master library as Open-Source. For more information head over to EtherCAT-Master.

Source code / Releases#

The source code is released under LGPL-v3 and can be downloaded (as well as releases) directly from my GitHub. libethercat (https://www.github.com/robert-burger/libethercat.git)