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Commissioning

Type EtherCAT device type

Product/Revision Product and revision number of the EtherCAT device

Auto Inc Addr. Auto increment address of the EtherCAT device. The

auto increment address can be used for addressing

each EtherCAT device in the communication ring

through its physical position. Auto increment

addressing is used during the start-up phase when

the EtherCAT master allocates addresses to the

EtherCAT devices. With auto increment addressing

the first EtherCAT slave in the ring has the address

0000

hex

. For each further slave the address is

decremented by 1 (FFFF

hex

, FFFE

hex

etc.).

EtherCAT Addr. Fixed address of an EtherCAT slave. This address is

allocated by the EtherCAT master during the start-up

phase. Tick the control box to the left of the input field

in order to modify the default value.

Previous Port Name and port of the EtherCAT device to which this

device is connected. If it is possible to connect this

device with another one without changing the order of

the EtherCAT devices in the communication ring,

then this combination field is activated and the

EtherCAT device to which this device is to be

connected can be selected.

Advanced Settings This button opens the dialogs for advanced settings.

The link at the bottom of the tab points to the product page for this EtherCAT device on the web.

“Process Data” tab

Indicates the configuration of the process data. The input and output data of the EtherCAT slave are

represented as CANopen process data objects (PDO). The user can select a PDO via PDO assignment and

modify the content of the individual PDO via this dialog, if the EtherCAT slave supports this function.

Fig.95: “Process Data” tab

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