The universal POWERLINK Gateway is a small box with two Ethernet ports. The real-time port is connected to an Ethernet POWERLINK network. The other port acts as an interface to an IP network.

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The POWERLINK Managing Node for PCI Bus is a PC interface card, which connects a PC with a POWERLINK network.

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The POWERLINK hub from port is a generic hub design for Xilinx FPGAs and PLDs written in VHDL. The propagation delay is less than 390ns. In conjunction with port’s POWERLINK MAC it offers a fast and easy connection to an EPL network.

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The POWERLINK-MAC developed by port is a special MAC controller optimized for POWERLINK for Xilinx-FPGAs. Through several special transmit buffers and the possibility to respond automatically to POWERLINK frames by hardware, extremely short response times are reached.

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