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16 Appendix A: The RTC6 Ethernet Board
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16.7 Standalone Functionality
• In contrast to PC operation, the aim of the
Standalone Operation Mode is that the
RTC6 Ethernet Board operates independently
without a connected PC. Among other things, for
this purpose, the list commands to be processed,
all correction tables to be used and the control
commands to be executed during
automatic booting
(1)
must be stored in the
NAND Memory.
• Then the RTC6 Ethernet Board can be configured
to boot automatically
(1)
(depending on the data
stored in NAND Memory by
store_program(
Mode
) after a Hardware Reset.
After that, it is in one of the following states:
– “Normal PC Operation State”
– “Standalone Basic State“
– “Standalone Full State“
• The “Normal PC Operation State” is achieved by:
– BIOS < BIOS-ETH 26
– BIOS-ETH 26 and set_eth_boot_control( 0 )
– BIOS-ETH 26 and store_program( 1 )
In these cases, load_program_file must be called
for further operation.
• The “Standalone Basic State“ is achieved by:
– BIOS BIOS-ETH 26, store_program( 0 ) and
set_eth_boot_control( 1 )
A load_program_file call is not required. See also
Chapter 16.7.4 ”Boot Image”, page 911. The
procedure for “Standalone Basic State“ is
described in Chapter 16.7.2 ”Preparing the
“Standalone Basic State“”, page 909.
• The “Standalone Full State“ is achieved by:
– BIOS BIOS-ETH 26, store_program( 2 ) and
set_eth_boot_control( 1 )
Compared to the “Standalone Basic State“ it is
also no longer necessary to load correction files.
The same applies to loading of the list commands
which have been stored upon
store_program( 2 ). Furthermore, control
commands for configuration
(2)
can be executed
automatically as required. See also
Chapter 16.7.4 ”Boot Image”, page 911. The
procedure for “Standalone Full State“ is
described in Chapter 16.7.3 ”Preparing the
“Standalone Full State“”, page 910. In
“Standalone Full State“, the RTC6 Ethernet Board
can process its list independently and without a
connected PC after an /START.
• The NAND Memory contents can be written to
the PC as a so-called “Boot Image” by
read_im
age_eth as a binary file and copied to
any
number of RTC6 Ethernet Boards by
write_image_eth, see Chapter 16.7.4
”Boot Image”, page 911.
• Details on automatic booting can be found in
Chapter 16.7.6 ”Automatic Booting – Process in
Detail”, page 914.
• RTC4 SCANalone Board users must observe the
safety notice on the encoder counter direction,
see Notice!, page 57.
(1) In this Chapter, “automatic booting” means that in
addition to the actual booting, additional data is read
out from the NAND Memory.
Notice!
• The following requirements must be met for
Standalone Operation Mode:
(1) At least BIOS version 0x26 (BIOS-ETH 26) is
installed
(a)
on the RTC6 Ethernet Board.
See Chapter 16.7.1 ”Upgrading BIOS-ETH”,
page 909.
(2) The user program uses RTC6 Software
Package 1.7.0, that is, a combination of
• DLL 618
• ETH 618
• RBF 623
• DAT 603
(a) See
RTC6conf.exe
and
RTC6BIOSETH_38.out
.
(2) See Chapter 16.7.5 ”Control Commands Allowed for
Automatic Booting”, page 912.
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