This chapter provides basic information on EtherCAT com-
munications.
EtherCAT Slave Information . . . . . . . . . . . 12-2
EtherCAT State Machine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12-3
EtherCAT (CoE) Communications Settings . .12-5
Application Example . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12-5
Device Recognition with Station Aliases . . . . . . 12-5
PDO Mappings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12-6
Setting Procedure for PDO Mappings . . . . . . . . 12-7
Default PDO Mappings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12-7
Synchronization with Distributed Clocks . . 12-8
Emergency Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12-11
EtherCAT
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