EtherCAT

EtherNet/IP

PROFINET IO

SERCOS

Modbus TCP
Modbus UDP
EtherNet
Powerlink
 

Available
Yes
(DSP402
Q2-2025)
Planned
Q1-2025
Planned
Q1-2025
Coming soon
Yes
Coming soon

Application

Protocol

 CANopen
(DS301)

CIP Profinet IO

SERCOSIII

ver. 1.1.2

 

 Modbus CANopen
Company Beckhoff Rockwell Automation Siemens Bosch Rexroth
B&R
MacTalk over RS485:
 		Yes

Yes

 Yes Yes
 Yes
 Yes

IIoT, IoT, Industrie 4.0:

Yes

Yes

 Yes Yes
 Yes
 Yes
MacTalk over Ethernet including ALL functionality

(Scope, ePLC transfer, Load Default, Firmware Updates, etc.)
Yes
Requires EtherCAT Master
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes

Transport

Protocol
EtherCAT
EtherCAT/
UDP
TCP/IP,
UDP/IP
TCP/IP,
UDP/IP, Profinet RT

TCP/IP or UDP/IP

Powerlink V2

Syncronization
DC, 32bit
CIP Sync,
Planned
Profinet IRT,
Planned,
Q2-2025
 Planned - Planned

Drive profile
DSP402,
Planned,
Q2-2025
CIP Motion,
Planned
PROFIdrive,
Planned,
Q2-2025
 Planned - Planned

Functional Safety, SIL3 (STO, SS1, SS2, SOS, SLS, SLP, SDI, SSM, SBC)
FSoE,
Planned
CIPsafety,
Planned
PROFIsafe,
Planned,
Q1-2027
 CIPsafety,
Possibly		 - -

Sync. cycletimes
1 or 2 ms
1 or 2 ms
1 or 2 ms
 1 or 2 ms
 - -

Sync. jitter
+/-1us
 -
+/-1us
 +/-1us
 - -
Network
Minimum
cycle time

<50 µs

1-2 ms

1 ms

250 µs

~2 ms

<200 µs
Module
Minimum
cycle time:
500µs
500µs
500µs
500µs
500µs
500µs
Address
Range

65535

65535

65535

511

65535

256
Max.
Baudrate
Ethernet
100Mbit/s
Ethernet
100Mbit/s
Ethernet
100Mbit/s
Ethernet
100Mbit/s
Ethernet
100Mbit/s
Ethernet
100Mbit/s
Forwarding
delay

<1 µs

10-130 µs

3.25 µs

<1 µs

 10-130 µs

0.5 µs
Network
Line, Ring,
Star, Tree
Switches,
routers,
wireless
Switches,
routers,
wireless

Line, Ring
Switches,
routers,
wireless
Line, Star,
Tree
Standards
IEC 61158,
IEC/PAS 62407
IEC 61784-3
ISO 15745-4
IEC 61158/
IEC 61784/
ODVA Ethernet/IP
standard
IEC 61158/
IEC 61784
 
 
 
IEC 61491
merged
into
IEC 61158
 
IEC 61158/
IEC 61784
 
 
 
IEC 61158, EPSG
(Ethernet
Powerlink
Standarization
Group)

Further

supported

protocols

SDO, CoE

DHCP, ACD, DLR, LLDP

RTC class 1-3, RTA
, DCP, CL-RCP,LLDP, SNMP, MRP client

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DHCP

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User org.

ETG

ODVA

Profibus int.
Sercos North America,
Sercos International

Modbus Org.

EPSG