Yamaha RCX340, User Manual

Page: 17 / 40

7
ESI Files
13
7. ESI Files
ESI (EtherCAT Slave Information) is a type of network setting file. It contains settings for a device that supports
EtherCAT.
The network setting file contains information necessary for connecting to a host control device, such as I/O
size and communication settings, in a prescribed format. When constructing a network, the settings information
of all connected network devices must be loaded into the host control device.
The appropriate engineering tool or configuration tool is used to make settings for and write to the host control
device, and during this process it will be required to load each device's network setting file into the tools.
The steps for loading the file will depend on the host control device to use, and on the tool that supports it.
Refer to the manuals for the devices and tools.
These files are included on the robot product manual DVD, and can also be downloaded from the Yamaha
product website.
URL: https://global.yamaha-motor.com/business/robot/download/fieldbus/
ESI File Name: YAMAHA RCX340 EtherCAT 1_00.xml