EtherCAT master – Advanced Settings
Once you have added an EtherCAT device to the IO configuration, you can open the "EtherCAT" tab and click the "Advanced Settings…" button. The "Advanced Settings" dialog opens. The "Advanced Settings" dialog includes the following dialogs:
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State Machine |
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Master Settings |
General settings for the master. | |
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Slave Settings |
The "Slave Settings" dialog allows the user to change settings for all EtherCAT slaves. To change some of these settings for a single EtherCAT slave device, open the "Advanced Settings" dialog for the slave device and select the "Behavior" dialog. | |
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Cyclic Frames |
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Sync Tasks |
The "Sync Tasks" dialog allows you to set the maximum number of Sync Tasks and the MTU for the cyclic Ethernet transfer frames sent by the master. | |
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Process image |
In this dialog you can set whether the Working Counter or the command header should be displayed in the process image. | |
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VLAN Tagging |
In this dialog you can enable or disable VLAN support for communication with this master device. | |
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Distributed Clocks |
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In this dialog you can make settings for the distributed clocks. |
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Diagnosis |
This dialog shows the quality of EtherCAT DC communication. | |
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Slave Diagnosis |
This dialog can be used to carry out a measurement for the DC diagnosis and to display measurement results. | |
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EoE Support |
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This dialog can be uses for settings for Ethernet over EtherCAT, i.e. transparent tunneling of standard Ethernet communication via EtherCAT. |
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Redundancy |
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Mode |
In this dialog you can make settings for the cable redundancy. | |
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Emergency |
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Scan |
In this dialog the diagnostic tool Emergency Scan can be triggered, and the results of the diagnosis are displayed. | |
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Diagnosis |
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Online View |
The "Online View" dialog can be used to add additional columns to the list view under the "Online" tab of the EtherCAT device. Added columns can be hidden again. | |