NI-Industrial Communications for EtherCAT provides EtherCAT master support that enables deterministic I/O on NI controller hardware.
NI-Industrial Communications for EtherCAT offers you support for using CompactRIO Controllers, PXI Controllers, or Industrial Controllers. With this software, you can expand your I/O by using a CompactRIO Chassis with the EtherCAT bus or by using Remote I/O hardware. NI recommends using NI EtherCAT products, which have been fully tested and validated, with this driver software.