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PC Cards cifX PCI, PCIe, Low Profile PCIe | Installation, Operation and Hardware Description
DOC120204UM36EN | Revision 36 | English | 2012-10 | Released | Public
© Hilscher, 2008-2012
1.2.7 EtherCAT
Disclaimer
EtherCAT
®
is registered trademark and patented technology, licensed by
Beckhoff Automation GmbH, Germany.
To get details and restrictions regarding using the EtherCAT technology
refer to the following documents:
“EtherCAT Marking rules”
“EtherCAT Conformance Test Policy”
“EtherCAT Vendor ID Policy”
These documents are available at the ETG homepage
www.ethercat.org
A summary over Vendor ID, Conformance test, Membership and Network
Logo can be found within the appendix section of this document under
section
EtherCAT Summary over Vendor ID, Conformance test,
1.3 Licenses
If a PC Card cifX is used as a Slave, neither for the firmware nor for the
configuration software SYCON.net a license is required.
Licenses will be required if the PC Card cifX is used with
•
a firmware with master functionality*.
* The master license includes the PC Card cifX operating as master and
the license for the configuration software SYCON.net for the respective
cifX.
1.3.1
License Note about VARAN Client
In order to use the PC Card cifX with VARAN, you need a license which
you can acquire at the VNO (VARAN Bus-Nutzerorganisation, Bürmooser
Straße 10, A-5112 Lamprechtshausen, info@varan-bus.net) after getting a
member of VON.
The license as well as the Vendor ID and the Device ID can be adjusted
with the SYCON.net configuration software or with the netX Configuration
Tool.
