Configure EtherCAT Motion Bus
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Before configuring the EtherCAT
Ethernet ofr Control Automation Technology.
EtherCAT® is an open, high-performance Ethernet-based fieldbus system.
The development goal of EtherCAT is to apply Ethernet to automation applications which require short data update times (also called cycle times) with low communication jitter (for synchronization purposes) and low hardware costs. settings, you may want to add third party EtherCAT devices.
See Add and Configure Third Party Devices for more information.
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Displays all the E-Bus devices present in the project tree. |
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Used to configure the EtherCAT bus master. |
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Used for an external configuration file. |
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Display, add, and remove available ESI files. |
KAS Kollmorgen Automation Suite includes an integrated tool to configure the EtherCAT master and start up the fieldbus An industrial network system for real-time distributed control (e.g., CAN or PROFIBUS, Sercos®).
It is a way of connecting instruments in a plant design. operation.
Use the configuration tool to:
- Describe your motion Topology as a configuration tree.
- See the procedure in EtherCAT Devices tab.
- Associate variables to the I/O channels of devices.
- See the procedure in Map Input and Output to Variables.
Slave Devices
Slave devices can support several PDOs.
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PDOs contain real-time cyclic data which is deterministic.
Non-cyclic data is not deterministic and is defined by Service Data Objects (ScDO).
In EtherCAT Motion Bus Concepts, input and output parameters are grouped in predefined blocks called PDOs.
- Some PDOs are mandatory; others are optional.
- See click here... for the list.
- One of the main tasks of the EtherCAT configuration is to select the PDOs used by each slave and group them all in the EtherCAT image.
- See EtherCAT Devices Summary Form for more information.
