AKD EtherCAT | 4 EtherCAT Profile
4.14 EEProm Content
AKD has a built-in emulated EEProm. This EEProm can be read by the EtherCAT master to
get some information about drive properties, like PDO-information, drive name, serial num-
bers and communication-specific attributes.
They are organized in categories. There are two manufacturer-specific categories imple-
mented in the AKD:
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Category 0x0800: Holds a string with the model type in the format AKD-P00000-NxxC-
0000
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Category 0x0801: Holds the firmware version in the format 0x_xx-xx-yyy
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