Start with the news release Sercos Conformizer for slave device pre-tests from Sercos North America, which we summarised at the time by saying "The Sercos III Slave Conformizer is a test tool for slave devices on the Sercos III Ethernet-based automation bus.". Several months prior to that, we featured the news release Open-source Sercos III master library launched from Sercos North America: "Sercos has announced that an open-source software driver library for the Sercos III real-time Ethernet communication system master implementation is now available via the sourceforge.net web portal.".
 
In November 2008, we covered the news from Avago Technologies - take a look at Avago offers Fieldbus transmitter/receivers which says: "Avago Technologies has announced a line of Fieldbus optical fibre transmitter and receiver modules. ".
 
Take a look also at the news release from Altera Europe, Low-cost FPGAs host industrial Ethernet standards, as well as IP core simplifies Sercos III integration from Sercos North America, and Sercos III Ethernet chip buillt on FPGAs from Xilinx.