Questions tagged [ethercat]

EtherCAT - Ethernet for Control Automation Technology - is an open high performance Ethernet-based fieldbus system.

EtherCAT - Ethernet for Control Automation Technology - is an open high performance Ethernet-based fieldbus system. The development goal of EtherCAT was to apply Ethernet to automation applications which require short data update times (also called cycle times) with low communication jitter (for synchronization purposes) and low hardware costs.

From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EtherCAT

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writing on rfid-Tag and locking block using CoE with IO-Link Master (ifm al1330)

i have got the following issues. I want to Read/Write on a Rfid-Tag and lock this block afterwards. I have the following hardware: AL1330, IFM Io-link Master https://www.ifm.com/mounting/80284123DE.pdf DTI513, IFM IO-Link Rfid-REader/Writer…
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INIT_INIT_ERR: TwinCAT scanning EtherCAT slaves

Upon scanning for the EtherCAT slaves using TwinCAT as the master, the state of a PCB is being displayed as INIT_INIT_ERR. Does anyone know what this means? Also, it would be nice to know what needs to be done to ensure that the state is back to…
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Send data periodically via NIC with small jitter in Linux

I am wokring on a project which requires the process to send a TCP/IP data frame via NIC periodically with high time auccuracy --> 1ms cycle time, with a tolerance of 50us(actually, the lower, the better). The application runs on a Linux machine…
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CoDeSys - Unable to write to internal variable

I'm currently working on a demo project from LinMot. The problem I ran into is that I'm unable to write the values I get of the fieldbus to the variables I have to work with. As you can see in the image I'm able to grab the correct values of the…
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TwinCat 3 Remote Deploy to XAR

I'm was trying to deploy my code to a device with XAR, but I only find solutions that I've to be in the same network... Is it possible to deploy to a device with XAR which is not in my network? I want to be at the office and try to deploy and…
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Twincat 3 simulating robot interface

Hallo this is my first post here. I'm currently doing my internship at a company that uses twincat 3 programs for automation in conjunction with a yaskawa robot system. The assignment I received is to expand the simulation software they currently…
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Ethercat communication defect after building c++ program

For my work, I am currently working on a existing system (C++) that communicates with a beckhoff PLC. This PLC reads the current speed of the process and controls a light. This program needs an update to work with the new thickness measurement. The…
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Codesys Control RTE V3 - Network Adapter configuration for Ethercat real time bus

I am quite new to the Codesys platform and I am experiencing some problems when trying to use the RTE on a Windows IPC as a target device. I am using an IPC (Windows 7 Embedded) with the following runtime version -> CODESYS Control RTE V3…
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run RTOS on 1 core and Linux on other SMP cores?

Say we have a 64bit ARM dual core CPU (sysmetric dual cores) I would like to run a bare RTOS on one core and assign other cores to Linux. in this way I have run a BLDC motor control (using on chip PWM output and ADC input) So far I would make it…
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Can we relay Ethercat protocol frames through a custom Ethernet switch(which meets the latency and jitter expectations)

I am planning to develop a custom highly efficient ethernet switch that can connect my Ethercat slave to a master. The switch does not do anything on the Ethercat frames and just forwards them to the master. The switch can relay the frames with…
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Error 87 in WriteFile function (NDIS) when using EtherType 0x88A4 (EtherCat)

I am trying to send a Raw Ethernet frame over layer 2, using the prottest.c example code for the NDIS driver, in C. The example works without problem, but when I modify the Ether Type (0x88A4 EtherCat) and adapt the frame with the necessary…
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TwinCAT 3 console message display

ADSLOGSTR(msgCtrlMask := ADSLOG_MSGTYPE_LOG, msgFmtStr := 'OSIO: %s', strArg := 'Autostrsys'); I'm using this function in TwinCAT 3, but when I'm running my code it's getting hanged because of ADSLOGSTR function. If I'm commenting this then it's…
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What device state can the store parameter (1010) in the canopen object dictionary be wrriten to

I am trying to figure out, what state I can store the current configuration by writing to the store index 1010.01 in the CANopen object dictionary. I tried doing it in the preoperational state but got this error Time: 2914.034 SDO slave:1…
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SDO ethercat SOEM/SOES

I’m implementing SDO communication using SOEM and SOES libraries but I’m having some problems, could someone help me? To go into detail I’m using a Pc with Ubuntu as Ethercat master and an ethercat slave which uses a LAN9252. The slave is connected…
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TwinCAT 3.1 fCoE read and write with Complete Access

I am attempting to perform complete access read and writes to an EtherCAT slave controller using TwincAT 3.1 on Windows 10. Generated EtherCAT Slave Stack Code using the Beckhoff Slave Stack Code Tool 5.12. Successfully able to enter operational…
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