[etherlab-users] Configuring watchdog timers on slaves

[Leonid Sapronov]

Hi all,
I'm new to EtherCAT and Etherlab. My test setup consists of two Elmo Gold Cello controllers connected to a Ubuntu machine running the Etherlab ethercat master. Everything works fine - I can talk to the controllers over EtherCAT. I can also access them through Elmo's EAS software. Somewhere on the Elmo's there's a Beckhoff ASIC that implements all the EtherCAT slave functions. This ASIC has several registers that control the operation of the watchdog timer. I know their addresses, but how can I actually access and write to those registers?

An Elmo engineer said that this is something I have to configure from my host and that the Etherlab software may have a way of letting me do this. Any help greatly appreciated.