Guide through documentation

Notice

Guide through documentation 1:

Further components of documentation

The documentations named in the following table are further components of the complete documentation. These documentations are required for the use of EtherCAT Terminals.

No.

Title

Description

[1]

EtherCAT System Documentation

System description EtherCAT field bus

  • System overview
  • EtherCAT basics
  • Cable redundancy
  • Hot Connect
  • Distributed Clocks
  • Terminal configuration

[2]

Explosion protection for terminal systems

Notes on the use of Beckhoff terminal systems in potentially explosive atmospheres according to ATEX and IECEx

[3]

Infrastructure for EtherCAT / Ethernet

Technical recommendations and notes on design, execution and testing

[4]

Control Drawing I/O, CX, CPX

Connection diagrams and Ex marking