Communication controller
Hilscher

The ASIC EC1 - EC stands for Embedded Communication - is a multi-functional communication system devised specially for industrial applications in the automation and embedded region. It offers Interfaces to the worldwide leading Fieldbuses, CANopen, DeviceNet, PROFIBUS and Ethernet.
EmbeddedComm combines a high capacity processor and an On-Chip storage with 10/100 MBit Ethernet, PROFIBUS Interface, two CAN channels and two serial Interfaces, so that data transmission from any desired application to the Internet is made possible.
The processor used is an Intel-compatible Turbo 80186 processor with 48 MHz and a capacity of more than 12 MIPS. Besides a DMA, Interrupt Controller, Timer and Watchdog, there is 256 KByte static RAM on Chip, so that only few external components are needed. The Firmware can be loaded via the SPI Interface from a serial EEPROM.
As a stand-alone Controller, the EC1 possesses 32 programmable I/Os or, alternatively can simple be coupled to a Host system via the integrated 8 kByte Dual-port memory.