Industrial Networking

To achieve the real time, low latency and deterministic nature required for Industrial use, many Ethernet protocols use specialized Ethernet Media Access Control (Ethernet MAC). This is achieved using hardware acceleration and special data packaging for high-speed encoding and decoding. As a result, users can choose either hardened ASICs or FPGAs for implementation. Some protocols are not offered in ASICs, such as Powerlink and Sercos III, making FPGAs the only viable solution.

Advantages of Xilinx FPGAs in Industrial Networking

• Support for legacy and real-time networking protocols
• Integrating custom function with networking for BOM cost reduction
• Abundant IOs and logics to support multiple protocols translation
• High levels of integration for low latency performance
• Development boards and reference designs for shorter development time

Networking Protocols Supported by Xilinx