Editable PDOs

This section lists all of the PDOs which can be edited. (Figure 1)

• PDOs can be created (Add PDO), modified (Edit PDO), or removed from the project (Delete PDO).
• See the EtherCAT device-specific documentation for more information.

Figure 1: PDO Editor tab - Editable PDOs area

The Input (Tx) and Output (Rx) PDOs are grouped separately.

Each PDO table contains this information:

Name	Description
Index	Identification value for the PDO. The range is defined by the EtherCAT specification. Rx PDOs: 0x1600 to 0x17FF Tx PDOs: 0x1A00 to 0x1BFF
Name	Text label to identify the PDO. The name is provided either by the device vendor or user. It can be changed by the user.
Size [bytes]	Total length for the PDO object(s) data.
User Modified	Yes: Indicates the user has changed the PDO or its content. No: Indicates the PDO is the default provided by the device vendor.

• The KAS-IDE compiler enforces restrictions on the sizes of individual PDOs and the sum of the sizes of PDOs.
• See PDO Restrictions and Compiler Errors.