[etherlab-users] Problems initializing Omron system

Asier Tamayo asier.tamayo at onaedm.com
Wed Mar 22 13:16:43 CET 2017


Dear all,

We have our Etherlab master running without any problem with Beckhoff boards (digital I/O, analog I/O…). Now, we wanted to make some tests with an Omron system, but we fail to get it running. We seem unable to make it go further than the INIT state. Has anyone got any experience in working with Etherlab and Omron systems? Do we have to make something different?

In Beckhoff, each board is an EtherCAT slave. However, in Omron all the boards connected to an EtherCAT coupler are a unique slave, but “ethercat slaves” only returns the configuration of the coupler itself. In TwinCAT, we can use an XML file to set the correct configuration for the system. Then, we can create a binary file in TwinCAT and write it with “ethercat sii_write” to the SII (EEPROM) of the coupler. After that, “ethercat slaves” returns the correct Omron system configuration.

For our demo, at this moment, we will use the coupler by itself:

# ./ethercat rescan

# ./ethercat slaves
0  0:0  INIT  E  NX-ECC202 EtherCAT coupler V1.2

# ./ethercat cstruct
/* Master 0, Slave 0, "NX-ECC202"
* Vendor ID:       0x00000083
* Product code:    0x000000a6
* Revision number: 0x00010002
*/

ec_pdo_entry_info_t slave_0_pdo_entries[] = {
    {0x2003, 0x04, 128}, /* NX Unit Registration Status 125 */
    {0x2005, 0x04, 128}, /* NX Unit I/O Data Active Status 125 */
    {0x2001, 0x01, 8}, /* Sysmac Error Status */
    {0x0000, 0x00, 8},
};

ec_pdo_info_t slave_0_pdos[] = {
    {0x1bf8, 2, slave_0_pdo_entries + 0}, /* 505th transmit PDO Mapping */
    {0x1bff, 1, slave_0_pdo_entries + 2}, /* 512th transmit PDO Mapping */
    {0x1bf4, 1, slave_0_pdo_entries + 3}, /* PaddingTxPdo */
};

ec_sync_info_t slave_0_syncs[] = {
    {0, EC_DIR_OUTPUT, 0, NULL, EC_WD_DISABLE},
    {1, EC_DIR_INPUT, 0, NULL, EC_WD_DISABLE},
    {2, EC_DIR_OUTPUT, 0, NULL, EC_WD_ENABLE},
    {3, EC_DIR_INPUT, 3, slave_0_pdos + 0, EC_WD_DISABLE},
    {0xff}
};

# ./ethercat master
Master0
  Phase: Idle
  Active: no
  Slaves: 1
  Ethernet devices:
    Main: 00:12:34:56:78:9a (attached)
      Link: UP
      Tx frames:   1027404
      Tx bytes:    62023504
      Rx frames:   1012682
      Rx bytes:    61140360
      Tx errors:   0
      Tx frame rate [1/s]:    986   1277   2060
      Tx rate [KByte/s]:     57.8   74.8  120.8
      Rx frame rate [1/s]:    986   1277   2056
      Rx rate [KByte/s]:     57.8   74.8  120.6
    Common:
      Tx frames:   1027404
      Tx bytes:    62023504
      Rx frames:   1012682
      Rx bytes:    61140360
      Lost frames: 14722
      Tx frame rate [1/s]:    986   1277   2060
      Tx rate [KByte/s]:     57.8   74.8  120.8
      Rx frame rate [1/s]:    986   1277   2058
      Rx rate [KByte/s]:     57.8   74.8  120.7
      Loss rate [1/s]:          0     -0      4
      Frame loss [%]:         0.0   -0.0    0.2
  Distributed clocks:
    Reference clock: Slave 0
    Application time: 0
                      2000-01-01 00:00:00.000000000

# ./ethercat slaves -v
=== Master 0, Slave 0 ===
Device: Main
State: INIT
Flag: E
Identity:
  Vendor Id:       0x00000083
  Product code:    0x000000a6
  Revision number: 0x00010002
  Serial number:   0x00000000
DL information:
  FMMU bit operation: no
  Distributed clocks: yes, 64 bit
  DC system time transmission delay: 0 ns
Port  Type  Link  Loop    Signal  NextSlave  RxTime [ns]  Diff [ns]   NextDc [ns]
   0  MII   up    open    yes             -   3370868674           0           0
   1  MII   down  closed  no              -            -           -           -
   2  N/A   down  closed  no              -            -           -           -
   3  N/A   down  closed  no              -            -           -           -
Mailboxes:
  Bootstrap RX: 0x0000/0, TX: 0x0000/0
  Standard  RX: 0x2800/256, TX: 0x2a00/256
  Supported protocols: CoE
General:
  Group: CommCoupler
  Image name:
  Order number: NX-ECC202
  Device name: NX-ECC202 EtherCAT coupler V1.2
  CoE details:
    Enable SDO: yes
    Enable SDO Info: no
    Enable PDO Assign: no
    Enable PDO Configuration: no
    Enable Upload at startup: no
    Enable SDO complete access: yes
  Flags:
    Enable SafeOp: no
    Enable notLRW: no
  Current consumption: 0 mA

We can see the slave is in state INIT. With the debug set to 1:

# dmesg -c
EtherCAT DEBUG 0: Sending broadcast-write to measure transmission delays on main link.
EtherCAT DEBUG 0: 1 slaves responded to delay measuring on main link.
EtherCAT 0: Scanning bus.
EtherCAT DEBUG 0: Scanning slave 0 on main link.
EtherCAT DEBUG 0-0: Slave has the System Time register.
EtherCAT DEBUG 0-0: Unknown category type 0x002A.
EtherCAT DEBUG 0-0: Unknown category type 0x003C.
EtherCAT DEBUG 0-0: Slave is not in the state to do mailbox com (INIT), setting to PREOP.
EtherCAT DEBUG 0-0: Configuring...
EtherCAT DEBUG 0-0: Now in INIT.
EtherCAT DEBUG 0-0: Clearing FMMU configurations...
EtherCAT DEBUG 0-0: Clearing sync manager configurations...
EtherCAT DEBUG 0-0: Clearing DC assignment...
EtherCAT DEBUG 0-0: Configuring mailbox sync managers...
EtherCAT DEBUG 0-0: SM0: Addr 0x2800, Size 256, Ctrl 0x26, En 1
EtherCAT DEBUG 0-0: SM1: Addr 0x2A00, Size 256, Ctrl 0x22, En 1
EtherCAT ERROR 0-0: Timeout while setting state PREOP.
EtherCAT 0: Bus scanning completed in 5142 ms.
EtherCAT 0: Using slave 0 as DC reference clock.
EtherCAT DEBUG 0-0: ec_slave_calc_transmission_delays_rec(delay = 0 ns)
EtherCAT DEBUG 0: No app_time received up to now.
EtherCAT DEBUG 0-0: Ready for requests.

Does anyone why the timeout is occurring? What can we do?

Thanks in advance,


Asier

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