ERIKA Enterprise with SOEM EtherCAT under Xen Hypervisor and Simulink code generation integration
This video shows an innovative EtherCAT master device implemented on COTS x86 hardware, using the ERIKA Enterprise RTOS (http://erika-enterprise.com/) and the SOEM EtherCAT master stack (https://openethercatsociety.github.io/).
Thanks to an improved version of the Xen hypervisor (https://xenproject.org/), the same hardware platform is capable of concurrently running both the Simulink development environment (either on Linux or Windows) and the real-time control code (automatically generated from Simulink).
The project has been developed in the context of the ECSEL I-MECH project (https://www.i-mech.eu/) funded by the European Commission for designing smart mechatronic systems.