Re: [etherlab-dev] Large PDOs

2013-12-10 Thread Gavin Lambert
How often do you need to access the large value? If it's at a reasonably slow rate (and if you have the freedom to change the slave, or at least unmap the PDO, which it sounds like you do from the below) then you might want to consider accessing it as an SDO instead. If it's an array or record ty

[etherlab-dev] Large PDOs

2013-12-10 Thread Jeroen Van den Keybus
Hi, I want to use a single, quite large (1,024 byte) PDO. Does anyone know how to specify such a large PDO in the XML description file / SII EEPROM content ? It seems that only base types are allowed as DataType in a PDO entry (basically any common data type up to 64 bits). Even if using 64-bit