Main Content

EtherCAT Get Notifications

Collect notifications from the EtherCAT bus

Since R2020b

  • EtherCAT Get Notifications block

Libraries:
Simulink Real-Time / EtherCAT

Description

The EtherCAT Get Notifications block collects notifications from the EtherCAT® stack and presents them to the output as a 21-element vector of int32. At each time step, the block outputs what it has accumulated and clears itself for the next time step.

The vector contains the number of notifications in element 1, followed by up to 20 notification codes. The maximum number of notifications is 20. If the bus presents more than 20 notifications to the output, the block discards the newest notifications and presents the first 20 that were received.

Ports

Output

expand all

  • Length (020) — the number of notifications in the vector.

  • Notification — a composite of a notification type and a specific value. The types are:

    • EC_NOTIFY_GENERIC [0x00000000 (0)] — Represents state changes, such as:0x00000001 (1) — EtherCAT operational state change.

    • EC_NOTIFY_ERROR [0x00010000 (65536)] — Represents error states, such as 0x00010001 (65537):cyclic command: working counter error. Some describe changes in error state.

    • EC_NOTIFY_SCANBUS [0x00030000 (3*65536)] — Represents ScanBus error states, such as 0x00030002 (196610):ScanBus mismatch.

    • EC_NOTIFY_HOTCONNECT [0x00040000 (4*65536)] — Represents hot connect states, such as 0x00040005 (262149):Subordinate device disappears.

To print the valid notification values and descriptions, call slrealtime.EtherCAT.filterNotifications without an argument.

Data Types: int32

Parameters

expand all

To associate a block with an EtherCAT network, enter the Network Device Index value from the EtherCAT Init block representing that network into the Network Device Index for the block.

Programmatic Use

Block Parameter: device_id

Enter the base sample time or a multiple of the base sample time. Use the EtherCAT task sample time.

Programmatic Use

Block Parameter: sample_time

Tips

To collect notifications:

  1. Add the EtherCAT Get Notifications block to your model.

  2. Connect the EtherCAT Get Notifications block to a File Log block.

  3. Use exported data log data from signal data displayed in the Simulation Data Inspector. See example Get Time and Data Log from EtherCAT Get Notifications Block for the slrealtime.EtherCAT.filterNotifications function.

Extended Capabilities

C/C++ Code Generation
Generate C and C++ code using Simulink® Coder™.

Version History

Introduced in R2020b