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9 Setting Up Slave Terminals
NX-series EtherCAT Coupler Unit User’s Manual (W519)
9-2 Setting Slave Terminal Parameters
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9-2-1 Items to Set
These settings are used to control the Units in the Slave Terminal.
Create the Unit Configuration of the Slave Terminal, and set up each Unit.
Make the settings on the Edit Slave Terminal Configuration Tab Page on the Sysmac Studio.
The Slave Terminal has the following setting information.
The EtherCAT Coupler Unit and the NX Units have default values for the I/O allocation information. If
the default values are used, create and set the Unit configuration information to complete the configura-
tion information settings.
Refer to 9-2-3 Setting the Unit Configuration Information on page 9-8 to 9-2-6 Unit Application Data on
page 9-25 for details on the Slave Terminal configuration and operation settings.
Slave Terminal Configuring and Operation Settings
Name Description
Configura-
tion infor-
mation
Unit configura-
tion information
This information describes the configuration of the Slave Terminal: the number
and order of NX Units mounted after the EtherCAT Coupler Unit, individual Unit
information, and information about the EtherCAT Coupler Unit itself.
I/O allocation
information
This information defines the I/O data in the EtherCAT Coupler Unit and the NX
Units.
Unit operation settings The Unit operation settings are for the EtherCAT Coupler Unit and the NX Units.
Unit application data This data controls the functionality that is specific to each NX Unit. Not all NX
Units have Unit application data.