Profinet support for Trio controllers

Setting up Profinet connection with Trio Controllers

Requirement

Minimum firmware version of 2.0319. 

Supporting Documents

See the attached zipped file (dist.zip) for the following supporting files:
  1. Application Note AN-449 TRIO Controllers with Profinet
  2. Motion Perfect project sample
  3. GSD file: GSDML-V2.3-TRIO-MC-20170613.xml

Supported Controllers

  1. Flex-6 Nano
  2. Flex-X Nano
  3. MC664
  4. MC6N-ECAT
  5. MC508

Limitations

  1. Future release of fw 2.0321 will provide command AUTO_PROFINET that will enable ProfiNET stack to be automatically started from power up. Sample project attached includes this command in MC_CONFIG.
  2. Implementation of 4-word data is still pending.

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