Tecchnosoft Drive Provides Ethercat Communication

Technosoft has equipped its IDM680 servo drive with an Ethercat communication interface, which is useful for motion applications where the synchronisation of a large number of drives is required. The Ethercat synchronisation capabilities and full bandwidth saves on installation costs by eliminating both Ethernet start topology and all switches, routers and hubs.

Besides Ethercat, this high-performance servo drive embeds a motion controller, drive and PLC functionality into a single compact unit. IDM680 can operate either as a standard Ethercat slave using a CANopen over Ethercat (CoE) protocol, or it can be programmed to execute complex motion programs directly at drive level, using the built-in motion controller and the Easymotion Studio platform.

Easymotion Studio automatically generates all TML instructions, so there is no need to learn or write any TML code. TML programming can reduce the development time of complex applications by distributing the intelligence between master and drive; users can call complex motion functions, pre-stored in the drive memory, or trigger their execution via I/O signals. IDM680 is suitable for the operation of brushless, DC or linear motors up to 640W continuous/1.3kW peak voltages.

Adding Ethercat compatibility to the IDM680 drive provides a combination of speed and various operating modes, including: position or speed profiles (trapezoidal, S-curve); 3rd order PVT and 1st order PT interpolation; electronic gearing and camming; analogue or digital external reference; open/closed loop and microstepping (up to 256 microsteps/step) for step motors.

This drive is equipped with various sensors: digital and linear Halls, SSI, EnDAT, BiSS, sine/cosine incremental encoders and resolver. PC/PLC motion libraries are available for the drive's quick industrial integration. IDM680 with Ethercat is suitable for motion control applications that require high data transfer rates, short data processing times and high synchronicity with low jitter, such as plant or building automation industries.

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