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Some EtherCAT specific Features can´t be configured using SyCon.net. Even tho they are supported by our firmware. Those features are, for example: Oversampling, Hot-Connect, EoE (Ethernet over EtherCAT) or FoE (Fileaccess over EtherCAT). Our cifx cards can, in case of EtherCAT, not only be configured using a configuration database (config.nxd) from SyCon.net or an applicative configuration. Instead it can also work with an ENI (EtherCAT Network Information) file, that is conform to the  EtherCAT specification. One of the most important tools in this regards is TwinCAT from Beckhoff GmbH. The following screenshots are taken from TwinCAT 2. Below it´s shown, how to export the ENI and how to download it to the cifx card. Using TwinCAT 3 is the same, just some names and colors are changed.

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Procedure 

• Open the TwinCAT System Manager and start a new Project

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