4. Running the acontis EtherCAT Master Demo

In this section we will get the EtherCAT master demo application running. In the first step, a simple network scan will be made. The network will not be set into OPERATIONAL mode.

4.1. Adjust the configuration

In this tutorial we use rtos_eth1 as the unique <RTOS device name>. Please adjust the respective configuration file for the EtherCAT demo. You may also have to adjust the parameters for the master stack demo.

RTOS-32

gedit /hv/rtos-32/ecmasterdemo.config

Add or uncomment #include "../config/rtos_eth1.config".

Assure the following command line is used (you will find this at the end of the file). "CommandLine"="-i8254x 1 1 -v 3 -perf -t 0 -b 1000 -sp"

Real-time Linux

gedit /hv/lx/hv.config

Add or uncomment #include "../config/rtos_eth1.config".

4.2. Run the demo

RTOS-32

cd /hv/rtos-32
sudo ./ecmasterdemo.sh

Real-time Linux

cd /hv/lx
sudo ./lx.sh
./dbgcon.sh

Start the EC-Master (without an ENI):

vmf64 login: root
password:  root
cd /mnt/rtfiles/ecat
./noeni.sh

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Finally, terminate the console connection to the real-time guest and stop the Real-time guest OS:

CTRL + C

sudo ./stopall.sh

4.3. Using Network configuration file (ENI)

In this section we will run the EtherCAT network into OPERATIONAL mode. You need to generate a network configuration files (ENI) prior to executing this tutorial. If you are not yet familiar with ENI files you should skip this chapter for now and return on demand.

RTOS-32

Copy your ENI file to /hv/rtos-32/rtfiles/ecmasterdemo/ENI.xml.

gedit ./hv/rtos-32/ecmasterdemo.config

Locate the [ecat] entry "CommandLine" and append -f ENI.xml to its value. Now you can run the demo as before.

Real-time Linux

Copy your ENI file to /hv/lx/rtfiles/ecat/ecmasterdemo/ENI.xml.

cd /hv/lx/rtfiles/ecat
cp ./noeni.sh ./eni.sh
gedit ./eni.sh

Add -f ENI.xml to the command line parameters entry. Now you can run the demo with ENI using ./eni.sh instead of ./noeni.sh.