esd electronics: Pioneers in industrial automation combining theoretical knowledge and practical applications

Company History:

esd electronics was founded in 1984 in Hanover by Dr.-Ing. Werner Schulze and Dipl.-Ing. Klaus Detering. Both engineers studied electrical engineering at the University of Hannover and wanted to apply their theoretical knowledge of control technology and real-time systems in industrial practice.

Main areas of activity:

esd electronics specializes in the development and manufacture of hardware and software for industrial automation technology, with a focus on customized solutions. Their customers are mainly from the automotive, mechanical engineering, medical technology as well as aviation and aerospace sectors. In addition, they offer training and workshops to complement their services. Their products are sold worldwide directly and through distributors.

Hardware and software development:

The engineers at esd electronics focus on the development of hardware and software for their own standard products and customer-specific designs. They help their customers from task analysis through development to series maturity.

Volume production:

In volume production, esd electronics works with OEM partners. All functional tests are carried out in-house.

Technology:

CAN bus: esd electronics is the world's leading supplier of CAN modules.

Industrial Ethernet EtherCAT: esd electronics relies heavily on the EtherCAT technology and supplies I/O modules, controllers and software for this.

VMEbus and CompactPCI plug-in systems: esd electronics continues to develop and manufacture technologically advanced components for the proven plug-in systems VMEbus and CompactPCI.

Software and control technology: esd electronics supports standard operating systems for Windows®, various UNIX® and Linux® systems with drivers, tools and applications.

CAN-PCIe/402

Product Description.

The CAN-PCIe/402 is a PC slot card designed for the PCI Express bus (PCIe) and is equipped with up to four electrically isolated CAN or CAN-FD interfaces according to ISO11898-2. This slot card is ideal for expanding any PC or workstation with PCIe slots, either full- or half-height.

Product Features.

Single Lane PCIe-Board with Intel FPGA supporting up to 4x CAN (FD).

1x, 2x or 4x CAN or CAN FD interfaces according to ISO 11898-2.

CAN bit rates from 10 kBit/s to 1 MBit/s.

Bus master and local data management via FPGA.

PCIe® interface according to PCI Express specification R1.0a.

Supports MSI (Message Signaled Interrupts).

CAN termination can be activated on board.

Supports multiple operating systems and extended CAN diagnostics.

Uses esd Advanced CAN Core (esdACC) technology.

Several design versions are available.

Technical specifications.

The CAN(-FD) interface is driven using the esdACC (esd Advanced CAN Core) developed by esd and certified according to ISO 16845:2004.

The design includes a bus master (first-party DMA) for exchanging CAN data.

The CAN interface can initiate write cycles in CPU-RAM independently of the host system's CPU or DMA controller.

Support for MSI (Message Signaled Interrupts) allows the CAN interface to be used in Hypervisor environments as well.

The module also supports high-resolution 64-bit hardware timestamps for highly accurate reception and transmission of CAN messages.