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Overview
Description
POWERLINK-Interface
System Requirements
Ordering Information

The POWERLINK Device Monitor is a tool for the graphical inspection and configuration of POWERLINK devices in a POWERLINK network. The embedded scripting ability makes it possible to access the implemented POWERLINK services and to write test or control applications with a minimum of effort.

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The information on how to display the device object dictionary is obtained from the XDD file of the device (XDD - XML Device Description according to ISO 15745) or can be scanned from the device directly.
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The program’s graphical user interface consists of

a hierarchical tree representation of the object dictionary
various action fields
an optional command console interface

Displaying all implemented objects as a tree facilitates the configuration by hand. The treeview is divided into the following segments:

communication profile
manufacturer-specific objects
device profiles

Devices with up to 8 device profiles are supported.

The tab Action is used for reading and writing device objects with POWERLINK SDO transfer messages.
Supported standard actions are:

reading of a device object
writing of a device object
incrementing of a device object
decrementing of a device object

Optionally a slider with a random value range can be assigned to every object to achieve a more useful configuration. For each object the meaning of each bit can be displayed.

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Values of manually configured device objects can be stored to a file and reloaded into the device.

The NMT tab makes several fields available for the execution of NMT services.

Under the tab Description an object description of the currently selected object in the object tree is shown. The description is taken from a text file which is created by the POWERLINK Design Tool or manually written with a common text editor.

Additional tabs are available for graphical representations of process data and can be defined by the user. Image pic/pic_edm/sc_f.png Image pic/pic_edm/netWork.png

Network Overview
The network overview displays the devices in an POWERLINK network.

The console is an extra feature. With the console an interactive access to the POWERLINK network is possible by using commands for:

SDO transfers
PDO transfers
network management services

Complete sequences of commands can be combined to procedures by means of the embedded scripting language. Image pic/pic_edm/console3.png

This feature is particularly useful for POWERLINK device developers. Through the scripting language all implemented POWERLINK communication services are available for test and control applications. Logging of the test sequences is also possible.

By using the POWERLINK Library and the POWERLINK Design Tool from port the developer gets a closed tool chain for creating POWERLINK compatible devices.

Through the scripting language access to elements of the graphical interface is available too. The graphical representation of values or test results is therefore application specific extensible.

port GmbH can perform special adaptions to the GUI or behavior to meet POWERLINK device characteristics for service or assembly testing.
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The POWERLINK Device Monitor requires a hardware interface. It’s a special POWERLINK/Ethernet router using the synchronous Ethernet POWERLINK on one side an on the other side it provides its services via TCP/IP.
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Operating System:	Windows™ 2000/XP, Vista
	LINUX™
Processor:	Pentium III and better
RAM:	256 MByte
Harddisk Space:	>20 MByte available

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1770/10	POWERLINK-DM-W
	(Full Version, Windows™)
1770/20	POWERLINK-DM-L
	(Full Version, LINUX™)
0640/50	CANopen-EDS2XML-W
	EDS-to-XML converter Windows™
0640/51	CANopen-EDS2XML-L
	EDS-to-XML converter LINUX™

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