The project aims to allow system integrators to transmit their data through a
distributed control system, synchronously over a single multi-pair cable with up to
5kHz data update rate while having less than 5μs clock jitter. The system supports up
to 255 slave nodes including servo motors, IO ports, and basic data communication
interfaces like I2C, SPI, and PWM that are widely used in the industry. Communication
between slave nodes will be done by a customized Ethernet communication protocol,
which is highly optimized for the system. Further, a customized version of PTP will be
used for clock synchronization which will reduce the computational complexity of
clock synchronization. FPGAs will be used for the implementation of the design to
achieve better performance. …...more
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