The FT 6000 family of Smart Transceivers is the next-generation system-on-chips for modernizing and consolidating smart control networks. It is a key product in Echelon’s IzoT™ platform — the most comprehensive and open control networking platform for the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT). It offers options for backward compatibility with LONWORKS® while adding native IP addressing at the device level and consolidating multiple control protocols on the same device carried over the reliable and proven Free Topology channel. It is designed to bring unprecedented flexibility and openness while lowering development and  device costs. 

The FT 6000 Smart Transceiver family integrates a high-performance Neuron® core with a free topology twisted-pair transceiver. Combined with the proven FT-X3 Communications Transformer and inexpensive flash memory, the FT 6000 Smart Transceivers provide a very flexible, low-cost, feature enhanced LONWORKS  or IzoT/IP or BACnet/IP solution all within the same device. The FT6000 series Smart Transceiver includes three independent 8-bit logical processors to manage the physical MAC layer, the network, and the user application. These are called the MediaAccess Control (MAC) processor, the network (NET) processor, and the application (APP) processor, respectively (see Figure 1). At higher system clock rates, a fourth processor called the IRQ CPU can be used to handle interrupts.

FT 6000 Key Features 

• 3.3V operation. 80MHz system clock, 64KB RAM and 16KB ROM on-chip memories 
•  Support for larger external flash memories, up to 256KB applications 
• Supports up to 254 Network Variables (NVs) and 127 aliases. up to 254 address table entries (16-fold increase) 
• Low-cost surface mount FT-X3 Communications Transformer. 
• Supports polarity-insensitive free topology star, daisy chain, bus, loop, or mixed topology wiring. Very high common-mode noise immunity. 
• User-programmable interrupts , hardware UART, 12 I/O pins with 35 programmable standard I/O models 
• Flash file system for data logging and other applications requiring persistent storage 
• Unique 48-bit IEEE MAC ID 7 mm x 7 mm 48-pin QFN package, -40°C to +85°C.