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 (like I210), 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, …)