EtherCAT Slave – Advanced Settings

To open the "Advanced Settings" dialog of an EtherCAT slave device, select the slave device in the I/O tree and open the "EtherCAT" tab. Next, press the "Advanced Settings…" button to open the "Advanced Settings" dialog. The following dialogs are included in the "Advanced Settings" dialog.

Dialog

Description

General

Behavior

Settings for general behavior.

Timeout Settings

With this dialog you can parameterize the times for the timeouts at the transition from one state of the EtherCAT state machine to another state. You can parameterize the timeouts for acyclic commands to the mailbox. You can set the link timeout for port B.

FMMU / SM

The "FMMU/SM" dialog shows the current configuration of the FMMUs and SyncManagers and enables the user to change these configurations. The mapping properties of FMMUs and SyncManagers can be set here.

Init Commands

This dialog provides an overview of commands that are executed at a particular state transition.

General

Identification

 

Mailbox

Mailbox

This dialog can be used to make changes to the configuration of the mailbox.

CoE

This dialog can be used to make changes to the configuration of the "CANopen over EtherCAT (CoE)" mailbox protocol.

FoE

This dialog can be used to make changes to the configuration of the "File access over EtherCAT (FoE)" mailbox protocol.

Distributed Clock

Distributed Clock

This dialog can be used to implement settings for the behavior of the slave device in distributed clock mode. Cycle times and shift times are displayed here or can be set.

Assign to local µC

 

Latch

In this dialog you can define settings for the handling of the Latch0 signal and the Latch1 signal. Latch events are read from registers 0x09AE and 0x09AF.

ESC Access

EEPROM

Configured Station Alias

This dialog can be used to enter a new value for the Configured Station Alias.

Smart View

The Smart View dialog shows the settings stored in the EEPROM of the EtherCAT Slave Controller (ESC).

Hex Editor

The EEPROM Hex Editor displays the binary content of the EEPROM in hexadecimal notation byte by byte. Each byte can be edited.

FPGA

 

Memory

With the memory dialog you can read data from the memory of the EtherCAT slave controller and write data into the memory of the EtherCAT slave controller.

ESC Access

EEPROM

Enhanced Link Detection

In this dialog you can activate or disable the extended connection detection.