9 Setting Up Slave Terminals
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NX-series EtherCAT Coupler Unit User’s Manual (W519)
9-2 Setting Slave Terminal Parameters
This section describes how to set the EtherCAT Slave Terminal parameters.
There are the following two types of parameters that must be set in the EtherCAT Slave Terminals.
Register the EtherCAT Coupler Unit in the EtherCAT network and set the settings for the EtherCAT
Coupler Unit, such as the node address.
Make these settings on the EtherCAT Configuration Edit Tab Page on the Sysmac Studio.
Refer to 9-2-2 Settings as an EtherCAT Slave on page 9-6 for details on the settings.
9-2-1 Items to Set
Setting Description
Setting location on Sysmac
Studio
Settings as an EtherCAT
slave
These settings enable the EtherCAT Coupler
Unit to perform EtherCAT communications with
the EtherCAT master as an EtherCAT slave.
EtherCAT Configuration Edit
Tab Page
Slave Terminal configura-
tion and operation settings
These settings enable the EtherCAT Coupler
Unit to control the internal processing of the
Slave Terminal based on EtherCAT communica-
tions, i.e., I/O refreshing for the NX Units, man-
agement of the NX Units, etc.
Edit Slave Terminal Configura-
tion Tab Page
Settings as an EtherCAT Slave
CPU Unit (EtherCAT master)
Settings as an EtherCAT slave
EtherCAT
Coupler Unit
EtherCAT
EtherCAT slave
NX Units
Slave Terminal configuration and operation settings