Microchip’s EtherREL™ technology provides a hardware-assisted implementation for common industrial redundancy protocols, such as Rapid and Multiple Spanning Tree Protocol (RSTP/MSTP), Device Level Ring (DLR) and High-availability Seamless
Redundancy (HSR).
Network Reliability is boosted with LINK MD
®+ diagnostics, in addition to traditional fault monitoring, providing an embedded Signal
Quality Indicator (SQI) for determining dynamic link error margin. Furthermore, Quiet-WIRE
® enhanced EMC performance delivers industrial-strength physical
layer reliability in the harshest environments, even when operating over low-cost unshielded cabling.