General tab
- Enabled: enables the usage of this slave; otherwise will be ignored
- Slave name: unique name of the slave in the EtherCAT network
- Auto incr address: automatically generated address, that will be used internally by Ether- CAT commands; first slave has address 0 and then backwards, depending of the slave position in the network
- Physical address: address of the slave that is indipendent from its position on the network; if ”Manual cfg” is not enabled, will be automatically generated from 1001, otherwise can be manually entered
- Previous port and Output port: they depend from the network topology; EtherCAT port are usually labelled from A to D (but the EtherCAT frame will follow the ADBC route), and the output port is the last port (in the frame route order) of the same type of the input port. The next slave connected to the output port will be shown as ”sibling” in the project tree
- Device info: here you can see various informations from the ESI file, and enable mandatory identity checks (on VendorID, ProductCode, RevisionNo, SerialNo) on the slave at startup
- On the first slave of each HotConnect group, it is mandatory to enable the ”Check identification” (with any of the 3 supported methods, tipically the ”Station alias”, that can be written to EEPROM with Online mode, see below), and optionally the ”Check previous slave address” can be enabled to ”fix” the position of the group inside the net- work, after a specific physical address; it this check is not used, the HotConnect group can be positioned anywhere inside the main network
- Watchdog: advanced settings of the watchdog features of the slave; to disable a watchdog set its value to zero
- Timeouts for state machine: timeouts in ms for the various transitions of state machine, between: Init, PreOp, SafeOp, Op
- Use LRD/LWR instead of LRW: if enabled, the optimized LRW command (both read and write, not supported by every slave) will not be used, and two simple LRD (read) and LRW (write) commands will be used instead