Service Note
The CANopen-PN does not contain any parts that require maintenance by the user. The CANopen-PN does
not require any manual configuration of the hardware. Unauthorized intervention in the device voids warranty
claims.
Disposal
Devices which have become defective in the long run have to be disposed in an appropriate way or have to
be returned to the manufacturer for proper disposal. Please, make a contribution to environmental protection.
Typographical Conventions
Throughout this manual the following typographical conventions are used to distinguish technical terms.
Convention
Example
File and path names
/dev/null
or
<stdio.h>
Function names
open()
Programming constants
NULL
Programming data types
uint32_t
Variable names
Count
Number Representation
All numbers in this document are
base 10
unless designated otherwise. Hexadecimal numbers have a prefix of
0x
, and
binary numbers have a prefix of
0b
. For example, 42 is represented as 0x2A in hexadecimal and 0b101010 in binary.
Abbreviations
Abbreviation
Term
Description
DCF
Device Configuration File
EDS
Electronic Data Sheet
Description file for CANopen devices
GSD
General Station Description
Description file for PROFINET devices
GSDML
General Station Description
Markup Language
Language of the GSD files (XML-based)
PDO
Process Data Object
RTR
Remote Transmission Request
SDO
Service Data Object
XML
Extensible Markup Language
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