Industrial Ethernet
Scalable Ethernet, Timed to Perfection
ADI Chronous™ is the leading portfolio of edge-to-enterprise Industrial Ethernet connectivity solutions, specifically designed to accelerate your path to Industry 4.0. ADI has leveraged its deep domain expertise and advanced technologies to help partners connect the industrial devices and networks of the future. Our trusted solutions ensure your critical data is reliably delivered throughout your application, ensuring seamless connectivity and operational efficiency. ADI Chronous solutions stand up in the toughest, time-critical environments and opens the door to time-sensitive networking.
The Path to Industry 4.0
Communications infrastructure is the backbone of the connected factory and presents many key opportunities on the path to Industry 4.0. As networks pivot from legacy fieldbus to Industrial Ethernet, multiple challenges emerge within the design and implementation phases. Developing future-proofed, robust, and scalable Industrial Ethernet solutions that can support multiple protocols is a time consuming and resource intensive task. It necessitates a pivot in skillsets and knowledge base to architect systems that ensure data integration, synchronization, and system interoperability. There is, however, a trusted partner who can help you navigate this task, assist in the design and development of seamless, robust Ethernet solutions: Analog Devices.
Deterministic Ethernet for Industry 4.0 Applications
See how this technology provides determinism at the node for factory devices so they do not have to worry about the effects of network traffic.
An Introduction on Implementing Industrial Ethernet
One obstacle that sometimes gets in the way of updating industrial protocols to Ethernet is an unclear implementation plan. This article looks at how an industrial plant might get started on the road from field bus to Ethernet.
Benefits of ADI Chronous? Products
The suite of Industrial Ethernet products includes technologies, solutions, software, and security capabilities designed to connect the real world to factory networks and beyond to the cloud. ADI leverages 50 years of experience supplying factories with industrial connectivity and next-generation Industrial Ethernet technologies that solve the big challenges surrounding seamless and secure edge-to-cloud connectivity.
Industrial Ethernet products include switches, physical transceivers, controllers, and network interface modules with full software protocol stacks. Designed to support scalable and flexible system development, the ADI Chronous™ portfolio offers multiple port count, low power consumption, and flexible bandwidth. Being multiprotocol, these solutions are compatible with all existing protocols while also providing the ability to future-proof for TSN features. Get to market fast with predicable, trusted results you can depend on every time by building your design with ADI’s robust Industrial Ethernet solutions.
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Deterministic
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Verified Robust
For the Harshest Conditions
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Scalable
For Optimized System Design
Delivering Trusted Data in Key Application Areas
ADI Chronous solutions are designed and verified for robust operation in harsh industrial environments and offer effective security at each node point within a system. ADI’s understanding of network architectures coupled with its application knowledge of how data is collected, processed, and used throughout an operation all serve to inform the security and robust features present in the ADI Chronous offerings. These features make ADI Chronous an ideal choice for a number of markets.
Process and Factory Automation
Deterministic networks and gigabit performance is a requirement of the future factory or process automation system. ADI Chronous, delivers off-the-shelf, full featured solutions that reduce development effort, risk, and time to market for new standard adoption.
Connection Motion and Robotics
ADI’s Chronous enables synchronization across the boundary of the network into the application, from sub-1 μs right down to the PWM outputs within the servo motor control. This improves machining and production accuracy in multi-axis applications such as robotics and CNC machines.
Building Automation
Addressing the multiple bandwidth requirements of existing and future intelligent buildings, ADI Chronous provides reliable, secure, and trusted digital communications at all levels of the network.
Time Sensitive Networking (TSN) with ADI Chronous
ADI Chronous solutions are designed to address the requirements of time sensitive networking (TSN) and deterministic Ethernet. Time sensitive networking, or TSN, refers to a group of IEEE 802.1™ and IEEE 802.3™ standards developed to provide deterministic performance within standard Ethernet. It is a universal standard being developed at an industry level to eliminate interoperability problems between protocols. It allows current protocols to share networks and provide reliable deterministic communication and scalability across applications, bandwidths, and enterprises all the way to the edge node. Given that the TSN standard is nearly finalized, now is the time to practically deploy standard Ethernet (with the TSN extensions) in real-time, mission critical applications. New hardware and software will be required that can support all these TSN features and ADI Chronous is the ideal solution for scalable, robust solutions that are designed for ease of deployment.
The ADI Chronous portfolio is supported by a host of software elements that simplify the adoption and increase the reliability of each product offering. Supporting multiple protocols, ADI offers a choice of fully tested and verified, production ready software protocol stacks that accompany our hardware. From host software drivers to APIs and development tools, ADI has the software needed to make the adoption of new standards and technology quick and simple.
Integrated with ADI’s PriorityChannel™ Technology
The Developer Portal provides additional information, resources and support for registered users who are evaluating the ADI Chronous embedded switches and network interface modules. Register to explore the content and simplify your Industrial Ethernet designs.
Developer Portal gives access to:
- The latest hardware reference design schematics
- A suite of network software for all protocols
- Documentation and development tools
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Technical Articles Page
- Robust Ethernet Physical Layer Solutions for Time Critical Communications in Harsh Industrial Environments
- Accelerating the Transition to Industry 4.0 with Industrial Ethernet Connectivity
- A Perfect Solution for Communications in Process Automation—How Analog Devices’ fido5000 Prepares JUMO for Industry 4.0
- Your Factory Could Be the Next Target for a Cyber Attack. Will You Be Prepared?
- Why It Is Worth It to Explore Ethernet for Motion Control
- What Role Will OPC UA, TSN, and Classic Industrial Ethernet Systems Play in the Future?
- What Is the Difference Between Ethernet and Industrial Ethernet?
- How to Start Implementing Industrial Ethernet
- Accelerating Industry 4.0: Extending the Secure Edge in Industrial Control Systems
- Hacker’s Paradise: What It Takes to Achieve a Secure Connected Factory
- Industry 4.0: Interview with Brendan O’Dowd
- Industry in Transition: Enabling Trusted Industrial Automation
- Time Sensitive Networks: Real-Time Ethernet
- Handling the Technical and Cultural Change of the IIoT
- Time Synchronization and Real-Time Performance in Ethernet Solutions
- Time Sensitive Networking: A Silver Bullet for the Industrial Internet of Things?
- How Important is Industry 4.0 for the Electronics Industry?
- What Time Sensitive Networking Is Trying to Accomplish
- How Ethernet Brought Determinism to a Wider Range of Industrial Systems
- Ethernet in the Automation Industry, Part 3
- Ethernet in the Automation Industry, Part 2
- Ethernet in the Automation Industry, Part 1
- Ethernet Solutions Evolve and Gain Ground on Fieldbus
- How Industrial Ethernet Makes Networks More Scalable
Solutions Bulletins & Brochures
Videos
- The Business Impact of TSN Enhancements in IIoT Systems
- Power Over Ethernet
- Analog Devices Capabilities in Industry 4.0 Applications
- Industry 4.0 is not just a vision, it is a journey that starts here
- Accelerating Industry 4.0 with TSN and Security
- Analog Devices: Accelerating Industry 4.0 with TSN and Security
- TSN and Security: Can Both Co-Exist to Meet the Demands of Industry 4.0?
- ADI's Synchronization of Motion Systems Over Industrial Networks
- From Now to Next: Accelerating the Path to Industry 4.0
- ADI: The Digital Transformation - Friend or Foe?
- Deterministic Ethernet for Industry 4.0 Applications
- The Digital Factory of Tomorrow and ADI ChronousTM Solutions
- ADI: The Evolution of the Control Network
- ADI: The Future of Ethernet Physical Layers in Industrial Systems
- ADI: The Future of TSN in Industrial Networks
- ADI: Synchronised Motion Control over EtherCAT Network
- ADI: Enabling Ethernet to the Field with 10BASE-T1L Connectivity
- ADI: Synchronised Motion Control over Gigabit TSN Network
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