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Configuration files
Section 1-4
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1-4 Configuration files
CANopen makes use of two types of configuration files:
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EDS-file (Electronic Data Sheet)
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DCF-file (Device Configuration File)
ASCII file
The EDS-file describes the communication functionality and objects as
defined in the CANopen specifications. It is a plain ASCII text file with the
following structure:
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Information regarding the EDS file
(filename and version, creation time and date, name of the creator, etc.)
•
General device information
(product name and revision, vendor name, supported baud rates, device
type, etc.)
•
Object dictionary with default values
The EDS-file is used by a network configurator tool and should be supplied
by the vendor of the particular CANopen device. See appendix A for the
contents of the EDS-file of C200HW-CORT21-V1.
The DCF is structured in nearly the same way as the EDS-file is. The DCF is
the result of the EDS-file after configuration of the unit for a specific
application. It describes not only the objects but also the configured values of
the objects.
Note that the nodes in the figure above cannot communicate in the same
network because they are not configured with the same baud rate!