Florian Pose wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, Nov 05, 2008 at 07:51:20AM -0500, William Montgomery wrote: > >> I have been using the mini example for a couple of weeks and recently >> changed to the RTAI example since this is the target environment. I now >> have the rtai example running and am able to read and write process data >> with a slave. I have looked through the application interface >> documentation and am not able to see how to access the slave controller >> registers. Do you have an example of this? >> > > this is not implemented for the application interface, because this is > usually not necessary. Can you explain, why you want to do this via the > API? > I am a newbie with respect to ethercat so I am not sure of the best way to do this. I would like to create a sync pulse on the slave for each write to the slave. I have found that I can write to a register on the slave controller to cause this pulse. I can modify the eeprom on the slave to add another sync manager and pdo for this but was unsure if I should use mailbox or buffer method to access the registers. After further reading, I thought that the whole PDO/sync mgr approach might not be necessary and that I could bypass that mechanism with a more direct method.
Any suggestions would be welcome. Regards, Wm _______________________________________________ etherlab-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.etherlab.org/mailman/listinfo/etherlab-users
