EtherCAT
With EtherCAT the division into boxes and bus terminals does not exist anymore. Every terminal has an EtherCAT Slave controller (ESC) integrated and therefore is a full EtherCAT slave device. An EtherCAT slave device can either be added to the EtherCAT(Direct Mode) Device or to the Real-Time Ethernet device. The basic property pages for the EtherCAT slave devices are the same for every connected device, be it a terminal, a drive or a bus coupler.
Tab | Description |
|---|---|
General | General information. |
EtherCAT specific configuration. | |
| Configuration of the process data. |
Displays online information about the EtherCAT slave device. |
Intelligent devices (for instance drives) that support a mailbox protocol for asynchronous communication have one or more of the following additional tabs:
Tab | Description |
|---|---|
Mailbox configuration | |
The "Startup" tab is displayed, if the slave device has a mailbox and supports either the CANopen over EtherCAT(CoE) protocol or the Servo Drive over EtherCAT(SoE) protocol. With the help of the "Startup" tab the user can configure which download requests are sent to the mailbox during startup. | |
If the EtherCAT slave device supports the CANopen over EtherCAT(CoE) protocol the additional tab "CoE-Online" appears. This tab enables the user to view the contents of the object dictionary of the slave (SDO-Upload) and to change the contents of an object in the dictionary (SDO-Upload). | |
SoE-Online | If the EtherCAT slave device supports, the Servo Drive over EtherCAT(SoE) protocol the additional tab "SoE-Online" appears. |