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0x17FF
0x1A00
–
0x1BFF
Tx PDO mapping
ARRAY
5 x 50
(max.)
Index configurable
0x1C00 Sync manager
type
ARRAY
4
Entry 1…4 prede-
fined
0x1C12
–
0x1C13
PDO map assign
objects
ARRAY
2 x 5
(max.)
Data direction pre-
defined
0x1C32
–
0x1C33
SM in-/output
parameter
RECORD
2 x 32
Reserved (unde-
fined) subindices
included
Figure 5-18: EtherCAT objects
5.3.6.2 Application profile area
Application specific objects for EtherCAT with index range 0x2000-0xFFFE
can be added dynamically to the object dictionary. Application objects can be
m
apped into PDO’s.
5.3.6.3 Data types
Additional to the general data types defined by the EMI, the following types are
supported by EtherCAT:
Data type
Byte size
Comment
BOOL
1
nonmaskable
INT8
1
INT16
2
INT32
4
REAL32
4
floating point
REAL64
8
floating point
UINT64
8
INT64
8
VISIBLESTRING
max. 80
OCTETSTRING
max. 80
DOMAIN
not defined
max. 1536 bytes
Figure 5-19: EtherCAT data types