By William H. West and D. Marshall Matheson, Danaher MotionALL NETWORKS are not created equal. High performance motion networks demand tightly managed timing regimens to ensure synchronous and real-time updates across multiple axes. While Ethernet offers adequate performance for general purpose applications that use distributed control, it is generally too slow for more demanding situations. In such cases, a fast synchronous network is required to connect a centralized motion processor to multiple servo axes.
This White Paper introduces a high performance upgrade to Ethernet specifically designed to support high performance centralized control systems and offers additional benefits including self-healing fault tolerance operation, simple discovery-based configuration, and high noise immunity.