
SFA-5000 • SFA-10000 EtherCAT
6.2 CANopen Over EtherCAT (CoE)
Lika draw-wire encoders are Slave devices and support “CanOpen Over
EtherCAT” (COE) mode for data transfer. In particular, they support the
“CANopen DS301 Communication profile”, Class 2.
For any omitted specification on CANopen® protocol, please refer to “CiA Draft
Standard Proposal 301. Application Layer and Communication Profile” and “CiA
Draft Standard 406. Device profile for encoders” documents available at the
address
For any omitted specification on EtherCAT® protocol, please refer to “ETG.1000
EtherCAT Specification” document available at the address
6.2.1 XML file
EtherCAT® draw-wire encoders are supplied with their own XML file
Lika_SFA_XXXXX_ECx_Vx.xml
ROTARY ENCODERS > DRAW-WIRE UNITS (DRAW-WIRE) > ABSOLUTE
The XML file must be installed in the EtherCAT® Master device.
If you want to know the firmware version of a device, press the
Box (Lika
EtherCAT SFA-XXXXX-EC)
item in the left pane of the
TwinCAT System
Manager
main window: some tabbed pages for configuring and managing the
device will appear in the right pane. Enter the
CoE - Online
page and refer to
and
indexes.
MAN SFA_5000_10000_EC E 1.0.odt
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