With the ASICs of the ERTEC family, devices and systems can be connected to PROFINET without great effort. The high-performance Ethernet controllers with 32-bit microprocessor as well as integral IRT switch have been specially developed for industrial use.

These Ethernet controllers handle all the data transmission for PROFINET IO in real time (RT) and isochronous real time (IRT) and thus offload the application processor. Thanks to the integral 2-port switch (ERTEC 200P and ERTEC 200) or 4-port switch (ERTEC 400), there are no costs for external switches. Flexible topologies such as star, tree and linear topologies can be implemented without any other external network components.

The EK-ERTEC 200P PN IO evaluation kit is provided for implementing devices based on ERTEC. It contains everything that is needed for developing PROFINET hardware and firmware using the ASICs ERTEC 200P. The stack is provided as source code. The development environment together with the real-time operating system eCos is just as much a part of the delivery kit as the example applications and test tools.

The Development Kit for Standard Ethernet Controllers enables the development of a PROFINET field device on the basis of a Standard Ethernet Controller. To enable its use to be as platform-independent as possible, the PROFINET IO stack supplied in the source code has been optimized for simple porting. This Development Kit offers everything required for developing PROFINET field devices with real time (RT).

If fail-safe field devices are to be implemented, fail-safe communication via the PROFIsafe profile is needed. The PROFIsafe starter kit provides the source code of the stack and comprehensive test and validation tools.