Partnership

Toradex and acontis technologies have a close partnership. This partnership is celebrated in the Partner Demo Image - EC-Master, now available for download in the Toradex Easy Installer image format.

What is acontis technologies

acontis technologies is a leading provider for EtherCAT Technology, Windows real-time software, and Real-Time Virtualization/Hypervisor Technology. The company is known for its high-quality products "Made in Germany". Their portfolio is completed by providing complementary Training, Support, and Software Services.

The range of their professional development services covers:

• EtherCAT master software integration and slave software services
• Industrial communication: CAN, Real-time Ethernet (e.g. EtherCAT)
• Board Support Packages: Windows CE
• Device Driver, firmware (Windows XP/CE)
• Applications (C, C++, C#, .NET Framework, Algorithms, HMI)

Evaluation

We recommend the Partner Demo Image - acontis EC-Master EtherCAT Stack. Please refer to the article and learn how to start with it.

Available pre-built images

Build Your Custom Yocto Image

In case you want to build your own image, acontis offers a Yocto layer for the integration of the atemsys kernel module. For more information, refer to the documentation on the acontis/meta-acontis Github repository.

Compatible Modules for EtherCAT Master from acontis

The following Computer on Modules are supported for the acontis EtherCAT Master:

• Apalis iMX8
• Apalis iMX8X
• Apalis iMX6
• Colibri iMX6
• Colibri iMX7
• Colibri iMX8X
• Verdin iMX8MM

Note: Please contact acontis for more information.

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