4.7. IntervalZero RTX

EC-Master is available for the RTX versions listed below:

RTX version	EC-Master version
RTX 2012	V2.9.x.x
RTX 2016	V2.9.x.x
RTX64 2014	V2.9.x.x
RTX64 3.x	V3.1.x.x
RTX64 4.x	V3.1.x.x

4.7.1. Unbind Ethernet Driver instance

To use Real-time Ethernet Driver under RTX, the network adapter should be assigned to RTX as described in the RTX user manual. The NIC driver should not use the network adapter for TCP/IP and therefore the network adapter may not be configured in RtxTcpIp.ini.

4.7.2. Setting up and running EcMasterDemo

The file EcMasterDemo.rtss has to be executed.The full path to the ENI file has to be given as a command line parameter as well as the appropriate Real-time Ethernet Driver.

RTSSrun EcMasterDemo.rtss -i8255x 1 1 -f C:/eni.xml -t 60000

See also

Running EcMasterDemo

4.7.3. OS Compiler settings

Besides the general settings from Compiling the EcMasterDemo the following settings are necessary to build the example application for RTX.

Extra include paths

<InstallPath>/SDK/INC/RTX
<InstallPath>/Examples/Common/RTX

Extra source paths

<InstallPath>/Examples/Common/RTX
<InstallPath>/Sources/OsLayer/RTX

Extra library paths to the main EtherCAT components

<InstallPath>/SDK/LIB/RTX64 (RTX64 4.x)
<InstallPath>/SDK/LIB/RTX64_30 (RTX64 3.x)