The Anybus NP40 Network Processor

The Anybus NP40 is a cutting-edge network processor for all major industrial networks. Particularly suited for high-end real-time Industrial Ethernet and fieldbus applications with fast network cycles and synchronisation demands.

The Anybus NP40 is a flash-based, single chip network processor that includes a high-performance ARM® Cortex™-M3 and an FPGA fabric.The FPGA fabric is used to implement the various real-time Ethernet interfaces while the ARM core is used to run the protocol and application stacks.

As the NP40 is Flash-based, the device can be re-programmed for several different industrial Ethernet networks. This means that a single hardware platform can support several different networks by simply downloading new firmware. For high-perfomance networks, the architecture makes it possible to get practically immediate data transfer with "zero delay".

Benefits of the device include:

• Optimised stacks and controllers- The network controllers, implemented in hardware (VHDL), are together with the protocol stacks optimised for best performance and flexibility.
• High performance - Host Interfaces- High performance host APIs implemented in hardware (VHDL ) provides deterministic interfaces with extremely low latency.
• Internal API separation- A unique API handling method separates the network application from the host interface providing a
• high-performance, event-driven architecture which is flexible and straight-forward to modify and extend.
• Low-level pre-processing- Protocol pre-processing in hardware (VHDL) enables "zero delay" process data latency between the network and host API.

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