Introduction

eXtreme Fast Control (XFC) is the name given to a technique that enables very fast, temporally high-precision reactions using EtherCAT, special I/O terminals and TwinCAT on the PC. Using EtherCAT Distributed Clocks (DC) and appropriate terminals, distributed latches or cam controllers can be implemented simply in this way.

• Function blocks for the high-precision acquisition and switching of digital signals related to axis positions
• EtherCAT Distributed Clocks with the timestamp-based EtherCAT, as for example EL1252, EL2252 or EL2262 input and output terminals
• Blocks for the conversion of DC time to position and vice versa
• Convenient PLCopen-compliant TouchProbe function block
• Digital cam controller as PLCopen-compliant function block