1. Introduction
This guide describes setting up a multi-OS setup with 2 running RTOS-32 instances (RTOS + RTOS2), each running an EtherCAT master stack.
This manual will guide you through the following steps:
Hardware/Software setup including the
Intel PRO/1000
network adapter, several EtherCAT slaves. (See Chapter Prerequisites)Assign the network adapters to the RTOS
Get the multi-OS setup running
Get the 2 EC-Master instances running without ENI
Hint
sudo
equals Windows run as administrator
.
Hint
sudo -s
switches user to root
(administrator).
1.1. Prerequisites
PC/IPC with at least 2 network devices.
CPU: at least 4 cores. Default configuration is optimized for 4 cores.
HDD: at least 20GB. Additional 50GB in case of Windows-VM-Guest
preferably 2x
Intel PRO/1000
(likeI210
), as the scripts are preconfigured to this network adapter.
2 EtherCAT slaves to attach to the network adapter
Caution
The PC/IPC will be used to install/co-install an UBUNTU derivate!
BIOS settings
USB Legacy mode has to be disabled
Hyper-Threading shall be disabled
Power saving settings have to be disabled (C-States, Speedstepping, …)