Drive profile

The ASI8100 supports the drive profiles MDP and DS402.

The profiles define the presentation of parameters for the EtherCAT slave of the AMI8100 and the index, under which the respective parameters are arranged in the object directory:

• The CoE objects in the MDP profile (Modular Device Profile) are allocated in the way that is common for the Beckhoff EtherCAT Terminals.
• The DS402 drive profile is specified in IEC 61800-7-200 (CiA402). It uses a different object directory structure.

Both profiles contain the same parameters. They only differ in terms of the specified designations and the parameter index. In both profiles, the drive state machine of the ASI8100 is based on the CiA402 State Machine, which means the functional behavior is identical.