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Assembly and Commissioning Instructions Servo amplifier D1-N 15.10.2015
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10
mega-ulink protocol
The D1-N servo drive amplifier supports the proprietary
mega-ulink
protocol via
both USB and the EtherCAT interface.
The
MPI library
handles communication and control between the PC and drive
controller.
A detailed description of this library and how to use it can be found in a separate
document called
mpi.pdf
and can be downloaded from www.hiwin.de. Alternative-
ly, contact the technical support team at HIWIN (see section 2.9).
This library can run on Microsoft Visual C++, Visual Basic and LabView applications
and can be installed with the following operating systems: Windows
95/98/2000/XP/Win7.
The MPI library consists of 4 files:
mpi.lib
mpi.dll
canlib32.dll
mpint.h.
Additional software called
WinPcap
must be installed for devices which are to be
controlled via EtherCAT. This is open-source software that can be downloaded
from
http://www.winpcap.org.
10.1
Features of the MPI library
- Communication settings (port number baud rate, USB/EtherCAT) .
- Simultaneous exchange of data with several communication ports , each of
which is connected to a D1-N.
- Multitasking support
Several tasks can be undertaken via the DLL interface with a minimum la-
tency period.
- Troubleshooting
- Read / write any variable / array in D1-N with 64-bit support
- Run PDL functions / PDL programs

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