EtherCAT Slave Test Application / Master Simulator

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 "CAN application protocol over EtherCAT (CoE)"
  • Read Object Dictionary (SDO Information Service)
  • Read and Write CoE Object (SDO Upload and Download)
  • ...

Performing Master State Changes

EtherCAT Slave Test Application

Slave specific informations and test functions

EtherCAT Slave Test Application

CAN application layer over EtherCAT (CoE)

EtherCAT Slave Test Application

File Access over EtherCAT (FoE)

EtherCAT Slave Test Application

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 Master Stack (EC-STA License)

System requirements

  • Microsoft Windows 7/10 (32/64 Bit) or Linux with mono framework
  • Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0
  • Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 to extend the shipped C# application

More information

Data sheets and evaluation versions are available in the download area.