1. Getting Started - step-by-step tutorial

This manual will guide you through the following steps:

  • Hardware/Software setup including the Intel PRO/1000 network adapter, several EtherCAT slaves. (See Chapter Prerequisites)

  • Scan the EtherCAT network and configure the network.

  • Bring the network into operational mode.

Hint

sudo equals Windows run as administrator.

Hint

sudo -s switches user to root (administrator).

1.1. Prerequisites

  • PC/IPC with at least 1 networt device.

    • CPU: at least 2 cores. Default configuration is optimized for 4 cores.

    • HDD: at least 10GB. Additional 50GB in case of Windows-VM-Guest

    • preferably 1x Intel PRO/1000 (like I210), as the scripts are preconfigured to this network adapter.

  • 1 EtherCAT slaves to attach to the network adapter

Caution

The PC/IPC will be used to install/co-install an UBUNTU derivate!

  • BIOS settings

    • USB Legacy mode has to be disabled

    • Hyper-Threading shall be disabled

    • Power saving settings have to disabled (C-States, Speedstepping, …)