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INOVANCE TECHNOLOGY EUROPE GmbH 
MD800 EtherCAT Starting Guide_EN_v1.1_20211109.docx 
   
TABLE OF CONTENTS 
1  General data ............................................................................................................................................ 3 
2  Purpose of this document ......................................................................................................................... 3 
3  Overview .................................................................................................................................................. 4 
4  Installing the SI-ECAT card ........................................................................................................................ 5 
4.1  Hardware layout .............................................................................................................................. 6 
4.2  Network topology ............................................................................................................................ 8 
5  Quick Start Commissioning ....................................................................................................................... 9 
5.1  Target Frequency mode ................................................................................................................. 10 
5.2  CiA402 Velocity Mode .................................................................................................................... 11 
5.3  CiA402 Cyclic Synchronous Mode (CSV) .......................................................................................... 12 
6  Parameters: Definition, Storage, and Access ........................................................................................... 13 
6.1  Introduction to Parameters ............................................................................................................ 13 
6.2  Memory Areas and Communication Addresses ............................................................................... 13 
6.2.1  EEPROM memory access ............................................................................................................ 13 
6.2.2  RAM memory access .................................................................................................................. 14 
6.3  ETHERCAT communication ............................................................................................................. 15 
6.3.1  Ethercat communication address ............................................................................................... 15 
6.3.2  PDO Area data ........................................................................................................................... 15 
6.3.3  SDO Mailbox data ...................................................................................................................... 18 
6.3.4  Related Parameters.................................................................................................................... 19 
6.4  CiA402 protocol ............................................................................................................................. 21 
6.4.1  Velocity Mode............................................................................................................................ 21 
6.4.2  Cyclic Synchronous Velocity Mode (CSV) .................................................................................... 22 
6.4.3  CiA402 Object Dictionary ........................................................................................................... 23 
7  Project Examples .................................................................................................................................... 40 
7.1  InoProShop project (Inovance’s AM/AC series controllers) .............................................................. 40 
7.2  Beckhoff's Controller ...................................................................................................................... 42 
7.2.1  Configure PDO parameters. ........................................................................................................ 48 
8  MD800 brief description ......................................................................................................................... 54 
8.1  KEYPAD .......................................................................................................................................... 54 
8.2  Inverter module LEDs ..................................................................................................................... 55 
8.3  Rectifier module display ................................................................................................................. 55 
8.3.1  Related parameters ................................................................................................................... 56 
8.4  Digital I/O configuration ................................................................................................................. 60