Industry-leading industrial interfaces expand the range of uniquely configurable xCORE multicore microcontrollers.
XMOS announces that it has added Modbus and CANopen xSOFTip blocks to the rapidly expanding range of embedded industrial communications capabilities supported by the xCORE family of multicore microcontrollers.
CANopen and Modbus are well established as the leading industrial communications protocols. The addition of these new soft peripherals allows designers to integrate these commonly-required protocols in their xCORE-based embedded designs, alongside a wide range of other industrial communications standards. This unique flexibility of configuration allows embedded designers to build systems with the exact combination of interfaces and control capabilities needed for their applications.
CANopen and Modbus, (which is available from XMOS in both Ethernet/TCP and serial/RTU variants), join a wide variety of protocols and interfaces already available as part of the XMOS xSOFTip peripheral library. These include CANbus, RS485 and LIN, as well as standard and time-stamped Ethernet, both of which are making rapid inroads in industrial markets. Together with the modular sliceKIT development system, industrial serial bus (IS-BUS) I/O sliceCARD, and associated xTIMEcomposer Studio development tools, XMOS provides everything developers need to rapidly create a broad range of industrial products.
In addition to the newly available Modbus and CANopen blocks, XMOS offers a variety of xSOFTip blocks aimed at industrial designers, including real-time Ethernet, USB, motor and motion control, and human-machine interface (HMI) functions. The XMOS xCORE multicore microcontroller can therefore enable everything from simple industrial sensors and actuators to protocol bridges, high-performance PLCs, and complex motor controllers.
The new industrial communications xSOFTip blocks are available for download from www.xmos.com.
