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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 11, 2017
Filed:
Jul. 02, 2012
Hezi Rahamim, Ramat Gan, IL;
Amir Yosha, Richon le Zion, IL;
Hezi Rahamim, Ramat Gan, IL;
Amir Yosha, Richon le Zion, IL;
NXP USA, INC., Austin, TX (US);
Abstract
An EtherCAT packet forwarding system with distributed clocking is provided. The system comprises a master device and a plurality of slaves. The master comprises a processing port and a forward port for being respectively coupled to the at least two Ethernet ports of the master device in a redundant ring topology. The slaves comprise an internal clock indicating a current time, and a slave memory comprising a processing timestamp variable, a forwarding timestamp variable, a temporary timestamp variable and a copy-direct bit.
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