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3.3 EDS File
An Electronic Data Sheet is an external disk that contains information
about configurable attributes for a device, including the object addresses of
each parameter. The following figure shows the configuration of a device
through the configuration tool that supports an EDS. The application objects in
the device represent the destination addresses for the configuration data.
These addresses are encoded in the EDS. ICP DAS provides users with the
CAN Slave utility software they need to create suitable EDS files. The EDS file
system architecture is presented in Figure 3-8.
Figure 3-8 the architecture of EDS file
EDS provides information about the device’s configuration data according to
the following:
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context
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content
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format
The information in an EDS file allows configuration tools to provide
informative screens that guide a user through the steps necessary to configure
a device. ICP DAS provides CAN utilities, so that users can setup their own
EDS file. You can use the EDS file in the DeviceNet Master to access
DeviceNet Slave devices. The CAN utility is a very powerful tool for the
