EtherCAT device identifier in different XML files/schemas
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An EtherCAT device identifier contains three elements: Vendor Id, ProductCode and Revision Number.
These elements are defined in EtherCAT slave information (ESI) file, DTMInformationSchema and FDTEtherCATIdentSchema. And FDTEtherCATScanIdentSchema uses DTMInformationSchema to define the scan response XML.
The following table illustrates the mapping of identifier definition in these files/schemas.
Idetifier
(ESI) file
FDTEtherCATIdentSchema/
FDTEtherCATScanIdentSchema
DTMInformationSchema
Vendor Id
(Data type: UINT32)
Element "Id"
Element data type: string, represents a decimal number like "2" or represents a hexidecimal value wiht prefix #x and eight hexidecimal numbers, e.g. "#x00000078".