Introduction

This document contains a software installation and configuration guideline for the fieldbus cards FC1100 and FC1121 with TwinCAT and the SlaveStackCode.
Furthermore all required information are provided to develop a new driver for these fieldbus cards.

The basic information about the fieldbus cards is listed in the following table.

FC11xx comparison

Technical data

FC1100

FC1121

Link

http://www.beckhoff.com/FC1100/

http://www.beckhoff.com/FC1121/

Interface to the PC

PCI

PCIe

EtherCAT Slave Controller

ET1100

FPGA-based

RAM

8

8

SYNC manager

8

4

FMMUs

8

3