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Product Features
u Distributed Clock (DC) Synchronization
ü The master sends a broadcast message that reads and writes the
system clock, making the clock of the first slave a reference clock, and
the internal clock of the other slaves is adjusted to be the same as the
first slave.
ü Each EtherCAT slave maintain a hardware clock and the minimum time
interval is 1 nanosecond. It is normally called Local System Time.
Through the EtherCAT DC technology, it can ensure that the local
system time error on all slave devices is within +/- 20 nanoseconds.
ü The system clock is a 64-bit timer. The count is the time elapsed since
0:00 on January 1, 2000 in nanoseconds.