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3.3 Device profile
The device profile describes the application parameters and the functional behavior of
the device, including the device class-specific state machine. With POWERLINK the
well-known CANopen profile
„Device Profile for Encoder“
, CiA DS-406 is used.
CANopen is located on the application layer. In case of POWERLINK the “Means of
transportation CAN” is exchanged simply against Ethernet:
Fi
g
ure 2: Virtual EPL / CANopen software architecture
