General tab
- Enabled: globally enables the usage of the EtherCAT network and generate the output ENI file
- Master name: optional description of the EtherCAT master
- Online config / Set up…: configures communication parameters for the Online mode; see specific chapter
- Online config / Online mode: toggles Online mode connection; see specific chapter
- View resulting configuration: shows a preview of the output ENI file
- Network topology: shows a graphical diagram of the physical connections of the EtherCAT slaves
- EoE – Virtual network switch: enables usage of the ”Ethernet over EtherCAT” feature, to allow routing of standard Ethernet frames over the EtherCAT network by the EtherCAT master
- Max ports: max number of virtual ethernet ports, that will be the max number of EoE enabled slaves in the network
- Max Frames: internal queue size that can be increased in the event of throughput problems
- Max MAC Ids: must be larger than the maximum number of Ethernet devices ever con- nected to all systems
- Reference clock: if there are one or more slaves that have DC enabled, will show the slave that will act as sync master for the others (it will be the first of the network)
- Sync shift time: implementation specific parameter that is the advance of Sync0 signal, in percent of cycle time, with respect to the mean send time; try different values if any slave has DC synchronization problems, normally leave as is
- Divergence threshold: maximum allowed divergence of the master timing vs sync master clock
- Always read identification informations: if enabled, all identification data of the slaves (VendorID, ProductCode, RevisionNo, SerialNo) will be read on startup; otherwise, they will be read only if the respective ”Check” is enabled on that specific slave settings. Obtained information will be available in the PLC diagnostic structures