KPA EtherCAT Master 2.4.29520.0 for Windows released

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1 Oct. 2020

koenig-pa GmbH released a new version of KPA EtherCAT Master for Windows OS.

Improvements in this release include:

EoE support for Windows based OS.
Timed send emulation with channel redundancy.
Custom logic for reading explicit identification value.
Mechanism of retrying the operation (command send, EEPROM read, memory read etc.) when frame is lost.
Mechanism of default transferring timeout calculation.
Mechanism of setting a default size of task queue depending on memory pool size.
Slaves configuration in the slavelib sub-folder.
A possibility to print all Master initialization parameters by setting Verbose INI parameter.
Separate error codes to handle memory pool fails during Master initialization and to notify about certain functionality unsupported by KPA network driver.
New error code ECAT_E_FRAME_CMD_SIZE_LIMIT.
INI file extension: added new parameters and updated default values.
New variable ECAT_MASTER_MAKE_DATA_FOLDER_SHARE to share data folder.
New API call EcatRPCGetCapabilities to get RPC API version and transport buffer size.
Performance improvement.
Mailbox improvement.
EEPROM operations improvement.
KPA Framework improvement.
Up to 256 simultaneous slaves memory requests.
Python application for RPC client.
Review of Windows PCAP driver usage.
Asynchronous mailbox call EcatRPCReadMemoryByPosIndex