AN-427 VIPA 053-EC01 IO coupler - How to add slave devices using EC_EXTEND

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• AN-379 Editing EC_EXTEND file

  EC_EXTEND files contain configuration information to allow the Motion Coordinator to start an EtherCAT slave node. It is used when the slave node information is not in the Motion Coordinator’s firmware database, or if a specific PDO configuration is ...

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  Error message pointing to a line in EC_EXTEND with <! at the start.  Why does it occur? Newer versions of Motion Perfect require the correct syntax for XML comments. For example:       <!-- CoE CW (2), Target Pos (4), Touch probe (2), Digital outputs ...

• How does the EtherCAT master recognise a valid slave?

  The controller looks at 3 values in the profile information or EC_EXTEND to recognise the slave. The test is this. Slave Vendor ID = <Vid> Slave Product code = <Pid> Slave revision >= <Rev>

• AN-404 How to Setup Balluff IO-Link device with Trio

  The Balluff BNI 0077 EtherCAT to IO-Link bridge requires a setup profile that configures it for the IO-Link devices connected. A Trio EtherCAT master uses an ENI type file called EC_EXTEND to allow such configuration. This document explains how to ...

• How to set 0x1A00:0x00 when adding objects to EC_EXTEND SDO init

  When adding a new Object to the PDDO in this case 0x6077:0x00 for Torque Actual Value, the value of 0x1A00:0x00 must be set so that it references all the objects in the PDO inlucing the new one. See below.