[etherlab-users] SDO type size problem

[Florian Pose]

Hello,

On Mon, Oct 04, 2010 at 03:34:07PM +0200, Thorsten Schnebeck wrote:
> I can only look into the specs available at ethercat.org
> in ETG.1000.6 There is 5.6.7.4.10.1 Sync Manager PDO Assignment Sync
> Manager Channel The Sync Manager Channel 0-31 object dictionary entry
> (index 0x1C10-0x1C2F) is specified in Table 76.

Correct, subindex 0 is specified as UNSIGNED8.

> But in 5.6.7.4 Table 66 – CoE Communication Area 0x1c10 is referenced as UNSIGNED16 array??

Yes, the array elements are 16-bit, but the number of elements in the
array (subindex 0) is always 8-bit (see above).

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Best regards,
Florian Pose

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