EtherCAT: Essential for Industrial Automation Solutions

The six videos on this page demonstrate how the RTOS Platform with EtherCAT is a complete real-time Industrial Automation solution.

The RTOS Platform does this by harnessing the power and value of Windows, x86 and x64 multiprocessors, hard-real-time software, and real-time Ethernet.

The six technical and instructional videos detail how the RTOS Platform with EtherCAT reduces the need for real-time hardware such as digital signal processors (DSPs). They also look at how the platform lowers costs, improves performance, and streamlines development for Industrial Automation systems.

IntervalZero is a member of the EtherCat Technology Group (ETG), the forum in which key user companies from various industries and leading automation suppliers join forces to support, promote and advance the EtherCAT technology.

EtherCAT is an open technology. The EtherCAT Technology Group stands for this approach and ensures that every interested company may implement and use EtherCAT. At the same time, the EtherCAT Technology Group aims to ensure the compatibility of EtherCAT implementations by defining functional requirements, conformance tests as well as certification procedures.

IntervalZero partners with three companies whose EtherCat Masters support RTX:

acontis technologies GmbH provides an EtherCAT master stack for: RTX 8, 2009, 2011 and 2012 RTX64 2013 and 2014

esd GmbH provides an EtherCAT master and slave stack for: RTX 8.1 , 2009, 2011 and 2012 RTX64 2013 and 2014

koenig-pa GmbH provides an EtherCAT master for: RTX 7.1, 8.1, 2009, 2011, 2012 RTX64 2014



RTX and RTX64 hard real-time software transforms Microsoft Windows into real-time operating system and delivers real-time symmetric multiprocessing on x86 and x64 multicore multiprocessors. EtherCAT enables high speed communications and is capable of obtaining Safety Inspection Level (SIL) 3 certification.

The RTOS Platform allows developers to utilize Microsoft’s Visual Studio single integrated development environment to maximize productivity.