Texas Instruments (TI) has announced to continue investment in its Sitara AM335x industrial software development kit (SDK), adding the production-ready EtherNet/IP protocol to the currently support PROFIBUS and EtherCAT protocols. This announcement will lead towards more affordability for OEMs and easier industrial automation. OEMs can now easily access production-ready software and accelerate time-to-market for their industrial automation designs, including programmable logic controllers (PLCs) and I/O devices such as sensors and drives. Advancement of this industrial SDK furthers TI's unmatched commitment to simplifying product development.
With the extended protocol support in TI's Sitara AM335x industrial SDK, OEMs can now connect their PLCs or I/O devices to two or more types of PLCs or HMI systems to give their customers enhanced connectivity flexibility in their industrial automation systems. As these protocols are supported through a single chip, OEMs can design scalable solutions with one printed circuit board based on TI's Sitara AM335x processors and change the protocol software in the processor's PRU depending on the system’s requirements.
TI's Sitara AM335x industrial SDK can be downloaded for free from TI.com to add communications flexibility to AM335x-based industrial automation systems.
