Overview
Description
Port’s GOAL (Generic Open Abstraction Layer) technology delivers the perfect way to successfully integrate real-time communication – one hardware, one middleware, enables you to implement communication standards into the customer’s product, unify access to a variety of systems, and reduce porting effort for all applications. GOAL scales perfectly with the available resources ranging from bare metal systems over RTOS like FreeRTOS, up to Linux. Support is available for MCUs/MPUs with EtherMAC and/or EtherCAT slave controller such as the RX72M MCU, RZ/N1, RZ/N2L, RZ/T1, and RZ/T2M MPUs.
Features
- Building block middleware for industrial communication
- Powerful socket for protocols like PROFINET, EtherNet/IP, EtherCAT, Modbus/TCP, CC-Link IE Field Basic, OPC UA, POWERLINK, CC-Link IE TSN
- TSN supported - connector to IoT / Industry 4.0
- Powerful services around networking: timer, memory management, flash handling
- Network management such as IP-Address management and others
- Engineering tools for code generation and master emulation