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Hitachi Industrial Equipment Systems Co., Ltd.

Items Specifications
Communication protocol EtherCAT® dedicated protocol(CoE)
Support service CoE(process data, SDO communications)
Synchronous communications(DC) Supported
Physical layer 100BASE-TX
Modulation method Base band
Transmission speed 100Mbit/s(100BASE-TX)
Duplex mode Full duplex/Auto(automatic)
Topology Daisy chain, branch wires
Transmission media Twist pair cable with shields, category 5 or higher
Transmission distance Within 100m in distance between nodes(IEEE802.3)
Maximum number of slaves 255
Maximum process data size Input 5,736 bytes/Output 5,736 bytes
Maximum size per slave Input 1,434 bytes/Output 1,434 bytes
Maximum message size 2,048 bytes
Communication cycle*1 About 1ms(motion control 1ms/4axes, 2ms/8axes, 4ms/16axes)
Process data communications
  • PDO mapping with CoE
  • Fall back operations when a slave abnormality occurs
  • Suspension of operations when a slave abnormality occurs
SDO communications CoE
  • Emergency message server(receiving from slave)
  • SDO request/response
Confi guration
  • Node address setting by HX-CODESYS network scanning
  • Network information display
RAS function
  • Slave confi guration check when the networks starts
  • Error information read
  • Troubleshooting information
Slave information
  • Slave activation/deactivation
  • Slave withdrawal/re-entry(slave option)
Mail box
  • CoE(CANopen/CAN application layer over EtherCAT®)
*
Ethernet ports should not be used for purposes other than the EtherCAT® master function when using the EtherCAT® master function.
*1
The communication cycle must be increased depending on the number of slave devices to be connected.

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