For a quick start, Hilscher offers a development kit, consisting of a hardware board with accessories, development environment and software examples. The NXHX 90-MC board, designed for evaluation and development purposes, also serves as a reference design and shows how a generic structure of the network interface and motor driver side is possible with the help of the netX 90. Thus, the installed software decides which type of motor, position detection and application profile is to be used, similar to the various real-time Ethernet-based communication protocols.

External memory expansions, as a configuration option, offer customers the option of replacing the standard firmware of the integrated flash memory, consisting of a communication protocol and an integrated web server for software updates, with a greatly expanded communication firmware, additionally with IoT connectivity, (D) TLS support and dynamic web server. The external host interface of the netX 90, with access to the same DPM layout as internally, offers customers a scalable and expandable solution for use as a pure network interface.

The NXHX 90-MC board can be operated directly with Hilscher's netX Studio CDT, a free Eclipse-based IDE that contains everything that is required for the configuration, development and debugging of embedded applications. The software examples for the different protocols, such as PROFINET device, EtherCAT slave and EtherNet/IP adapter, contain the communication firmware as loadable firmware (LFW), which only needs to be configured and uploaded by the user. The enclosed sample projects with cifX-API, for the development of application profiles, show how a connection to a controller via the network can be established in just a few steps. From the motor control point of view, the sample sources for the field-oriented control of a servo motor are included - in this case a PMSM with integrated Hall sensors and optional encoders.