Commercial support for openPOWERLINK
What is POWERLINK?
Ethernet POWERLINK is a real-time Industrial Ethernet protocol used for deterministic Ethernet applications. POWERLINK is based on an open standard that is managed by the Ethernet POWERLINK Standardization Group (EPSG).
What is openPOWERLINK?
openPOWERLINK is an open source Industrial Ethernet stack implementation of the Ethernet POWERLINK protocol. The openPOWERLINK stack implements both the Managing Node (MN, POWERLINK Master) and Controlled Node (CN, POWERLINK Slave) including all important features required by modern POWERLINK devices. openPOWERLINK is Open Source software (OSS) licensed under the BSD license and is free for commercial applications.
Kalycito in the openPOWERLINK ecosystem
Kalycito is one of the key maintainers and contributors to the openPOWERLINK stack since 2010. Kalycito has been helping customers globally with commercial support for porting and integrating openPOWERLINK master and slave stacks and IP cores into their PLCs, distributed I/O systems, drives and machine control applications.
Kalycito also has expertise developing custom configuration tools such as openCONFIGURATOR that can be used by machine builders to setup and deploy openPOWERLINK network in their machines.
commercial support for openPOWERLINK
Kalycito provides commercial support for openPOWERLINK to help customers
- Upgrade legacy control systems from RS422/RS485
- Minimize wiring complexity of point-to-point legacy I/O designs
- Porting openPOWERLINK to custom embedded platforms
- Real-time Linux on x86 (including PCIe designs)
- Bare metal or RTOS on ARM Cortex M4 and Arm Cortex A9 series
- Bare metal or RTOS on Xilinx Spartan, Artix, Zynq SoC
- Bare metal or RTOS on Intel/Altera Max10, Cyclone IV, Cyclone V SoC
| openPOWERLINK Stack Configuration | Product Use Case |
Number of slave nodes supported | Cyclic data size per node (bytes) | Async data size (bytes) | Hardware Platform | Baremetal | FreeRTOS | Linux/ VxWorks |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Drive Controller 250us cycle time | 8 | 32 | 300 | Zynq SoC Cyclone V SoC | ✓ | ✓ | ✕ | |
| Master stack+Time Triggered Send+Poll Response Chaining | I/O Controller 500us cycle time | 16 | 64 | 300 | Zynq SoC Cyclone V SoC | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Drive Controller 250us cycle time | 8 | 32 | 300 | Zynq SoC Cyclone V SoC | ✓ | ✓ | ✕ | |
| I/O, Sensors, Encoders, Drives | – | 32 | 300 | ARM Cortex M4 + FPGA | ✓ | ✓ | ✕ | |
| Slave stack + Auto Response + Poll Response Chaining | RS422/RS485 Custom I/O Coupler | – | 64 | 300 | Spartan 6, Artix 7 Cyclone IV, Max 10 | ✓ | ✓ | ✕ |
| HMI Vision systemsOPC UA Gateway | – | 128 | 1500 | Zynq SoC Cyclone V SoC | ✕ | ✕ | ✓ |