CANopen Manager / Slave Manual - esd electronics, Inc.

CANopen Manager
3. Initializing the CANopen Manager
3.1 Starting and Terminating the CANopen Manager
The CANopen manager operates in the background and if it is running faultlessly it does not require
further intervention by the user after its start
A configuration file has to be created to describe the CANopen network which represents the project
specific CANopen net.
3.2 Configuration of the CANopen Manager
The manager configuration file and the CANopen DCF files can be created with a standard text editor
for ASCII files. The syntax of the CANopen DCF files is described in /3/. The manager configuration
file follows the XML syntax. The keywords are described in following abstract.
3.2.1 Configuration file element relationship
Each XML configuration file for the CANopen manager has the following structure:
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CANopen_Manager is the root element of the configuration file. It contains child elements of
Manager_Instance for every physical CAN network that should be controlled by this manager. Each
of these Manager_Instance child elements contains child elements of Node_Instance for every
instance of a remote slave that should be controlled in this network. Each of the elements mentioned
above contain only element content. These elements are described in the following abstracts.
Software Manual • Doc. No.: C.2002.21 / Rev. 2.2 CANopen Manager