Lenze PLC Designer PLC Designer (R3-1) - Manual (Page 896)

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Device Editors
894 DMS 4.1 EN 03/2011 TD29
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Configuration dialogs
By default the Device Editor for the EtherCAT Configuration can be opened by a
double-click or by using command 'Edit object' when the Master or Slave entry is
selected in the devices tree.
Notice the Device Editor Options for general editor settings: For example generic
dialogs might be set invisible.
Notice also, that the buscycle task is defined in the PLC Settings.
An EtherCAT configuration dialog always is entitled with the Master or Slave name and
can provide tabs containing the following sub-dialogs:
For an EtherCAT Master:
• Master
• EtherCAT Configuration / Master
• EtherCAT I/O Mapping / Master
• Status
• Information
For an EtherCAT Slave:
• Slave
• FMMU/Sync
• Expert Process Data
• Process Data
• Startup parameters
• EtherCAT Configuration / Slave
• EtherCAT I/O Mapping / Slave
• Status
• Information
Access on EtherCAT configuration by the application:
Instances for the master and the slave will be created automatically and can be used in
the application program for example for restart, stop, status check.
• Implicit Instance of the Master
• Implicit Instance of the Slave
• Concatenated List for Checking all Slaves
Further on the EtherCAT library provides function blocks for reading and writing
particular parameters also during operation of the bus.
• Function blocks for "CAN over EtherCAT"