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
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