Configure Slave System

The following steps describe how to configure the slave system with TwinCAT and the slave card installed in PCI or PCIe port.

Start TwinCAT software, scan for new I/O Devices and select EtherCAT Slave (see fig. Select EtherCAT Slave).

The process data can be added by right mouse click on the corresponding node (see fig. Add Process Data Manually). If a PLC project is already added to the System Manger project which contains user defined structs these are also selectable.

If the PLC project is available, the linking between the PLC data and the defined process data is done by right mouse click on the variable and select Change Link (see fig. Create Variable Link).

Save the configuration in a tsm-file. This file can be used to provide the PDO setup to the Master configuration.