TSN, for large-scale integrated industrial networks
Support for delivering important data to the right place at the right time
Mosa-Xilinx to Demonstrate Technology at China's CAICT


Mossa announced on the 10th that it is collaborating with Xilinx to accelerate the development of Time-Sensitive Networking (TSN) technology for industrial automation and mass customization.

TSN is a technology that introduces the ability to predict delay times to standard Ethernet, enabling the accurate delivery of critical data to the right place at the right time in large-scale integrated industrial networks.

Currently, TSN technology is being utilized in many devices and facilities in various industries, including semiconductor and automobile manufacturing, machinery, food and beverage, chemicals, and power generation. However, each TSN application has its own specific requirements, and there are significant differences between TSN standards and application-specific TSN systems.

Moxa and Xilinx are committed to advancing TSN technologies to bridge the gap between TSN standards and diverse TSN application requirements, enabling the best possible real-time control and communication capabilities through complementary elements, and to building advanced platforms and infrastructure for industrial automation.

Like other industry standards, the TSN standard is evolving, and most TSN implementations based on proprietary chipsets have limited capabilities to address future customer requirements.

The combination of Mossa's TSN bridge solution, the TSN-G5000 series, and Xilinx's high-performance, adaptable FPGA, the Zynq UltraScale+ MPSoC, provides upgrade and reconfiguration capabilities to support both customer needs for future application expansion and evolving standards.

The two companies plan to demonstrate machine-to-machine (M2M) communication implemented with Moxa's TSN-G5000 series and Avnet's Xilinx Zynq UltraScale+ MPSoC-based 'Ultrazed' PCIe carrier card at the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology (CAICT), a government-affiliated institution.

This joint demonstration will showcase how TSN technology can prioritize network traffic, deliver tightly synchronized data streams in a timely manner even in congested networks, and enable plug-and-produce (PnP) production and future-oriented features in a consistent, interoperable environment based on TSN technology.