
User Manual
E727T0005, valid for E-727
BRO, 2019-06-28
Physik Instrumente (PI) GmbH & Co. KG, Auf der Roemerstrasse 1, 76228 Karlsruhe, Germany
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Operation
Communication
PC Interfaces
The E-727 can be controlled with ASCII commands (PI General Command Set) from a PC via the
following communication interfaces:
TCP/IP (p. 56)
Serial RS-232 connection (p. 61; not present if an EtherCAT interface is available)
USB connection (p. 62)
With TCP/IP and USB connections, communication cannot be maintained after the E-727 is power-
cycled or rebooted, or when EtherCAT communication is no longer running and TCP/IP and USB are
enabled again. The TCP/IP or USB connection must then be closed and reopened.
INFORMATION
The following commands are available for the PC interface parameters of the E-727:
Values in the nonvolatile memory:
−
Get with IFS?
−
Set with IFS
Values in the volatile memory:
−
Get with IFC?
−
Set with IFC (baud rate for RS-232 only)
For querying and setting the interface parameters, it is recommended to use the
Configure
Interface
window in PIMikroMove. There you can comfortably read, modify and save the values of
the interface parameters. For details, see the PIMikroMove manual.
Additional Interfaces
In addition, the E-727 can be controlled by an SPI master, see “SPI Interface” (p. 144) for details.
The PC interfaces and the SPI interface can be active simultaneously. The commands from the
interfaces are queued in the order the completed command lines are received.
E-727 models with EtherCAT interface can also be controlled by an EtherCAT master, see
“EtherCAT Interface” (p. 164) for details. The PC interfaces are disabled when EtherCAT
communication is running (OPERATIONAL communication state).
Communication via the TCP/IP Interface
The TCP/IP settings of E-727 are preset as follows:
IP address (parameter ID 0x11000600): 192.168.168.10:50000
IP mask (parameter ID 0x11000700): 255.255.255.0
IP start (parameter ID 0x11000800): 1 (IP address is obtained from DHCP server; if
no DHCP server is present, the IP address defined with parameter 0x11000600 is
used as static address)