Figure 11.68:
EtherCAT
®
configuration modes
A
Static mode
B
Dynamic mode
Static mode
In
Static mode
the CoE object dictionary contains a hard
-
coded layout of
channels. It can be choosen between 50, 100 or 200 predefined channels. All
CoE objects have predefined names like
Channel001
,
Channel002
,
Channel003
, … Each RT
-
FDB channel that is published to the bus is mapped
on one of these predefined channels. This strategy allows to change the setup
(or use different work benches) while still having the exact same ESI file.
Therefore, no manual changes are required to the EtherCAT
®
master setup
(e.g. ENI file), even when loading other workbenches.
Note
The Genesis EtherCAT
®
slave does update its internal CoE with all relevant
RT
-
FDB channel name changes. This means that upon a bus scan in the
master, the actual RT
-
FDB channel names would be available to the master.
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