EtherCAT Configurator Component Mapping

This table summarizes the mapping between third-party EtherCAT^® configurator components and Simulink^® Real-Time™ blocks and block attributes. For more information, see the TwinCAT^® 3 or Acontis EC-Engineer documentation.

EtherCAT Configurator Component		Simulink Real-Time Component
TwinCAT	Acontis EC-Engineer
Cycle ticks (task step)	Cycle time	Sample time
Scalars and vectors	Dimension	Dimension
BitSize	Byte size of type	Type Size
Data Type, BitSize	Data type	Signal Type
EtherCAT device variable names linked to variables in the task PDO	All PDO variable names included in default task as defined in the ENI file	EtherCAT PDO signal names for the Receive and Transmit PDO blocks