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EtherCAT PLC Systems: Cycle Time and Distributed Clocks

September 12, 2026January 17, 2024 by PLC

Timing chart of a 1 ms EtherCAT cycle showing the task window, the frame on the wire, and the SYNC0 pulse that applies outputs on every slave at the same instant

Set up an EtherCAT bus in TwinCAT 3: ESI files, scanning the line, picking a cycle time, distributed clocks and the CRC counters that find a bad cable.

Categories Articles Tags beckhoff, distributed clocks, ethercat, omron nx, TWINCAT 3

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