acontis technologies

acontis technologies is a leading provider for EtherCAT Technology, Windows real-time software and real-time Virtualization/Hypervisor Technology. The company is known for high quality products "Made in Germany".

In the fast-growing EtherCAT market, acontis technologies GmbH has achieved a leading position: the company is a highly competent EtherCAT specialist.

In 2004, they started development of the EtherCAT Master stack software and provide today a complete portfolio of EtherCAT products to customers.

acontis is an active member of the EtherCAT Technology group, attends all technical committee meetings and thus is always up to date concerning the latest EtherCAT technology developments.

Many important companies in the industrial automation market use their Master stack solution already.

The company was founded in 2001 and has a great experience in EtherCAT software as well as in real-time Hypervisor software. In 2004, Acontis joined the EtherCAT Technology group (member n°123).

acontis, with its 22 employees, offers software products for real-time Ethernet communication and to run a real-time operating system alongside with Windows. This is complemented with professional services.

acontis technologies has a strong distribution network:

• Since 2008 they have distributors in South Korea and Japan, and work together with Beijing Motrotech in China since 2014.
• With the headquarter in Ravensburg they cover the main part of Europe directly. In Italy and France they have distributors: Technologix and ISIT.
• Now CAN Automation is also part of their distributors’ family.

Acontis´ portfolio is large, providing also complementary training, support, and software services.

Products offered by acontis technologies

EtherCAT® Master Stack software solution: Available for Linux, Windows, VxWorks, FreeRTOS, On time RTOS-32, QNX, eT-Kernel, RTX, INtime, Xenomai, etc.

• EC-Win is a powerful open real-time EtherCAT programming platform for Windows. With using EC-Win it is possible to build deterministic real-time EtherCAT solutions for Windows.
• EC-Engineer is a modern and powerful software tool to configure and analyze EtherCAT® networks. It is integrated in Windows EtherCAT Master for comprehensive online functions. The EC-Engineer Web is an EtherCAT software tool based on web technology for Windows and Linux with modern browser-based user interface.
• EC-Inspector is a troubleshooting and monitoring Tool for EtherCAT® networks.
• EC-Lyer is an EtherCAT diagnosis and error detection tool.
• EC-Simulator virtualizes EtherCAT® networks by simulating the EtherCAT® slave devices to run EtherCAT Master applications without real EtherCAT® slave hardware available.
• EC-STA is an EtherCAT Slave Test Application for slave software development and slave production testing.
• System-wide communication is possible with the EtherCAT Automation Protocol (EAP).

acontis technologies in STMicroelectronics Ecosystem

acontis and ST have a strong technical partnership to develop on new hardware and fix issues on current hardware. Acontis is a perfect partner for customers who want to use the EtherCAT technology in their products, covering Master, tools and on Slave parts. Many blue chips customers worldwide use their products.

acontis EC-Master Software supports the ARM Cortex-A7 chip as used on the STM32MP135F-DK Board from STMicroelectronics.

The implementation is running in the OpenSTLinux Linux distribution provided by ST, and support is available for both the included Linux Network Driver and the Acontis optimized Real-time Driver.

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