EC-STA

EtherCAT Slave Test Application

The EC-STA EtherCAT Slave Test Application is useful for manufacturers of EtherCAT slave devices to perform comprehensive tests based on the proven and widely used EC-Master stack. Typically, the EC-STA will be used while creating and testing EtherCAT slave software as well as for slave production tests. The core component of the EC-STA is a Windows application based on the Microsoft .NET technology and written in the C# programming language. As the complete source code is included, the user is able to add customer-specific functions very easily, for example running automatic, script based test sequences. The EC-STA offers a comfortable and clear user interface with many features and allows testing any existing EtherCAT slave device.
Important: To assure that a EtherCAT Slave Device is conforming to the EtherCAT Standard the EtherCAT Slave Conformance Tool has to be used.
See: http://www.ethercat.org/en/conformance.html
 

Features

Selection of EtherCAT Network Information (ENI) File Perform Master State Changes Perform Slave State Changes Display Process Data Input and Output Area Mailbox Protocol "CANOpen over EtherCAT (CoE)" Read Object Dictionary (SDO Information Service) Read and Write CANOpen Object (SDO Upload and Download) ...

Performing Master State Changes

 

Slave specific informations and test functions

 

CAN application layer over EtherCAT (CoE)

 

File Access over EtherCAT (FoE)

 

 

Delivered components

Graphical .NET Application including complete Source Code (C#) .NET Wrapper Library for EC-Master API Simple Console Application EC-MasterDemo including complete Source Code (C++) EC-Master for Windows XP/7 (EC-STA License) EC-Master WinPcap Link Layer for Windows XP/7 (32/64 Bit)

System requirements

Microsoft Windows XP/7 (32/64 Bit) Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 to extend the shipped C# application