3 Microchip MPLAB® Harmony 3 Release Notes

• Added LAN9253 EtherCAT device with SQI support with Harmony 3 framework.
• Added EtherCAT Applications for LAN9255 device with Harmony 3 framework and all the applications support both SPI and SQI.
• Added EEPROM Emulation support for LAN9255 device.
• Added support for Dummy bytes (Individually programmable per read and write command type) for both LAN9253 and LAN9255.
• EtherCAT application demos are verified with Beckhoff SSC stack v5.12.
• Added MCC support for all demo applications.
• Added production **hex** files in the application for both LAN9253 and LAN9255 devices.

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• MPLAB X IDE v6.0.0
• MPLAB XC32 C/C++ Compiler v4.0,0
• TwinCAT Manager:
  • TC31-Full-Setup.3.1.4024.7x and above.
• EtherCAT Beckhoff Client Stack Code (SSC) v5.12
• MPLAB X IDE plug-ins:
  • MPLAB Code Configurator v5.1.2

• Updated Library and application Documentation from CHM file to Markdown file.
• Added EtherCAT Applications for LAN9253 with Harmony 3 framework.
• Added Error LED support to indicate these following errors.
  • EEPROM loading error
  • The failure EtherCAT Client connectivity link
  • Application Layer Error Event (AL Event)

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• MPLAB X IDE v5.45
• MPLAB XC32 C/C++ Compiler v2.50
• TwinCAT Manager:
  • TC31-Full-Setup.3.1.4024.7x and above.

• CSP v3.8.1
• MHC v3.6.0
• EtherCAT Beckhoff Client Stack Code (SSC) v5.12

• EtherCAT component is added in Harmony 3 to enable customer to develop EtherCAT Applications with Harmony 3 framework using LAN9252 device.

This release include demo application that demonstrates firmware update over EtherCAT on SAM D51 with LAN925x Evaluation board.

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• MPLAB X IDE v5.35
• MPLAB XC32 C/C++ Compiler v2.40
• MPLAB® X IDE plug-ins:
  • MPLAB® Harmony Configurator (MHC) v3.3.5 and above.
• TwinCAT Manager:
  • TC31-Full-Setup.3.1.4024.7x and above.