netSHIELD "NSHIELD 90-RE"
- Jin Zhao
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Overview of communcation systems supported by NSHIELD 90-RE
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EtherNet/IP Adapter |
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EtherCAT Slave |
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Open Modbus/TCP |
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CC-Link IE Field Basic Slave |
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POWERLINK Controlled Node |
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Sercos Slave |
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DeviceNet Slave |
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CANopen Slave |
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PROFIBUS DP Slave |
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The Hilscher NSHIELD 90-RE is a netX 90 SoC based evaluation board of the product family netSHIELD, it is the successor of NSHIELD 52-RE. netSHIELD functions as an STM32 Nucleo expansion board with Arduino Uno compatible connectors.
The NSHIELD 90-RE board is designed and tested for 3.3V based hardware designs like STM32 Nucleo microcontroller development boards. Due to its Arduino Uno footprint compatible host interface connectors, the NSHIELD 90-RE can be easily plugged into STM32 Nucleo-64 and Nucleo-144 development boards.
The NSHIELD 90-RE enables the user to connect a microcontroller-based application to many relevant Real-Time Ethernet industrial networks with best-in-class real-time capabilities, like PROFINET, Ethernet/IP, EtherCAT and others. I. e., the customer application can communicate in industrial RTE without any further hardware development efforts. The protocol can be easily changed (e. g. from PROFINET IO-Device to EtherCAT slave) by simply downloading a new firmware file to the device.
The NSHIELD 90-RE features a netX90 system on chip (netX SoC), which serves as a “companion chip” for the customer host device's microcontroller (MCU).
The netX SoC architecture is designed from the ground up for the highest demands on flexibility, determinism, and performance in terms of multiprotocol capability and low latency for short cycle times. The heterogeneous multi-core architecture features an ARM processor core, coupled with a flexible communication subsystem (xC) for varieties of industrial applications support.
The communication subsystem, i.e., the protocol stack, runs completely independent on the netX SoC and requires only small memory and very limited CPU resources from the host microcontroller. A protocol specific firmware image for the netX network controller is stored in a serial flash memory.
Due to an integrated crypto-core, the NSHIELD 90-RE expansion board is well-prepared for evaluation of the upcoming security feature.
GETTING STARTED
Documentation, PC utility, evaluation firmware for NSHIELD 90-RE board as well as software expansion package for the STM32Cube IDE application examples (PROFINET, and EtheNet/IP) can be found here: Downloads NSHIELD 90-RE
STM32 Cube expansion
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GETTING STARTED
The STM32Cube expansion and documentation can be downloaded here: Downloads NSHIELD 90-RE
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