Guide through documentation

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Further components of documentation

This documentation describes device-specific content. It is part of the modular documentation concept for Beckhoff I/O components. For the use and safe operation of the device / devices described in this documentation, additional cross-product descriptions are required, which can be found in the following table.

Title	Description
EtherCAT System Documentation (PDF)	System overview EtherCAT basics Cable redundancy Hot Connect EtherCAT devices configuration
Design Guide EJ8xxx - Signal distribution board for standard EtherCAT plug-in modules (PDF)	Notes on the design of a signal distribution board for standard EtherCAT plug-in modules. Requirements for the signal distribution board Backplane mounting guidelines Module placement Routing guidelines
Documentation of the corresponding ELxxxx EtherCAT Terminal (s. note on documentation of ELxxxx)	Notes on the principle of operation and descriptions for configuration and parameterization are transferable to the corresponding EtherCAT plug-in modules
Infrastructure for EtherCAT/Ethernet (PDF)	Technical recommendations and notes for design, implementation and testing
Software Declarations I/O (PDF)	Open source software declarations for Beckhoff I/O components

The documentations can be viewed at and downloaded from the Beckhoff website (www.beckhoff.com) via:

the “Documentation and Download” area of the respective product page,
the Download finder,
the Beckhoff Information System.