Sercos International, provider of the Sercos automation bus, announced the availability of the Sercos III IP Core for Xilinx 7 series FPGAs and devices of the Zynq SoC family. 

sercos international will show new safety concepts, products, and innovative technologies of exhibiting member companies during the Hanover Fair, April 8 - 12, 2013, in hall 9, booth D80. A conceptual approach that simplifies the integration of machinery in manufacturing will also be presented.

Sercos International will present its product and service portfolio together with its members at more than 20 events this year to enhance their presence globally. Sercos will exhibit at several exhibitions and conferences as well as providing additional education with two new seminar opportunities in Germany.

Sercos announce that the SPS IPC Drives exhibition in Nuremberg was an outstanding success for the organization. More than 20 companies from a wide range of areas presented exhibits and product demonstrations at the user organization's joint booth, which attracted 40% more visitors than in the previous year. This growth also reflects the numbers in the IMS research study The world market for Industrial Ethernet components from April 2012, in whic...

The Sercos International user organization announced at Hannover Fair that it will soon release a powerful diagnostic tool for Sercos III networks and offer it as a free download on the Sercos websites. The diagnostic tool allows a comprehensive and detailed analysis of the data traffic in Sercos III networks.

The first practical results of the machinery initiative, which was launched jointly by Sercos International, ODVA, and OPC Foundation in April 2011, were announced at the 2012 Hannover trade fair.

The Sercos vendor organizations have released an update to the specification for the Sercos III Real-time Ethernet solution. The V1.3 specification broadens the functionality and the range of applications of the international Sercos real-time standard, while considering new trends in machine and plant construction.

At Hannover Fair 2011, sercos international announced plans to continue and intensify its cooperation with ODVA, which began in November 2006. With the objective of advancing common interests and topics, sercos international will be involved as an active partner organization within the new ODVA machine initiative. A key focus of the cooperation is the worldwide marketing and expansion of CIP Safety, which is currently used as a bus-independent sa...

At Hannover Fair 2011 sercos international announced that it is making a driver library for the sercos/IP protocol available as open source software. The driver software is available for download in C# source code via sourceforge.net, without any license fees or usage limitations.

A new, powerful, independent test system, the sercos Slave Conformizer, is now available for conformance testing of sercos III slave devices. This test system, which takes the form of a reference master, ensures the compatibility and interoperability of sercos III slave configurations from different manufacturers.

With over 3 million real time nodes shipped, the sercos automation bus has achieved yet another milestone in its 25-year history. Despite the rapid growth of sercos' latest generation based on Industrial Ethernet, an end to sercos' conventional drive interface is not in sight. Based on an optical fiber ring with speeds of up to 16 Mbit/s, sercos II is still registering growth in the upper single digits.

The SERCOS vendor organizations have announced the release of the energy profile specification for the SERCOS III Real-time Ethernet Communications System.

At the recent SPS/IPC/Drives show, the SERCOS interface for digital communications announced its 25th year anniversary. The success of the SERCOS interface is certainly way beyond the wildest dreams of the pioneers of SERCOS 25 years ago. Their results have been accepted across the world and repeatedly characterize innovative automation concepts in thousands of applications in a large number of industries.

At the recent SPS/IPC/DRIVES 2010 show, the SERCOS vendor organizations announced the availability of the FDT specification extension for the SERCOS III Real-time Ethernet Communications System. Thus, SERCOS III is the first high-performance real-time Ethernet communication standard to support FDT Technology, used by many manufacturers to connect field devices to a wide range of software environments.

The SERCOS vendor organizations have announced the development of an energy conservation profile for the SERCOS III Real-time Ethernet Communications System for controls, drives and decentralized peripherals.

The SERCOS III Slave Conformizer is a powerful test tool for slave devices on the SERCOS III Ethernet-based automation bus. It ensures that SERCOS III slave implementations from different manufacturers are compatible and interoperable.

SERCOS International announces that an open source software driver library for the SERCOS III real-time Ethernet communication system master implementation is now available via the sourceforge.net online-portal. The software can be used by interested users (control manufacturers, tool suppliers) according to the LGPL license, without any license fees and without any usage limitations.