End-of-Life Information

The end-of-life of the EtherCAT Master PCIe Card  is planned for June 30, 2022. As of this date, no services of any kind will be available for this product. We advise against using the EtherCAT Master PCIe Card  in new projects. New Releases of the EtherCAT Master PCIe Card will be available for customers with a Software Maintenance Service Contract until June 30, 2021.

Services	Until / Date	Last Release
End of life announced	Nov 2019
Product can be purchased	Jun 2020
New revisions provided	Jun 2020
Repair service provided	Jun 2021
Software support provided	Jun 2021	Release 2021-A
Bug-fixes for supporting software	Jun 2021
Customer support services provided	Jun 2022

Successor

For new projects we recommend that you use the new software based EtherCAT stack. The corresponding ConfigurationDesk EtherCAT master I/O-function features bus cycle times lower than 250 µs and acyclic communication with CAN application protocol over EtherCAT (CoE). Furthermore, the EtherCAT master stack can use any available Ethernet port.

If you have any questions or need more information, your contact in the dSPACE sales team will be glad to help. 

Migration Information

Starting with dSPACE Release 2019-A you can migrate to the new software based EtherCAT stack. It is contained in the SCALEXIO Fieldbus Solution software but requires a separate license. Additionally, a free Ethernet port is needed in your SCALEXIO system.