We are excited to inform you about the release of VS EtherCAT Master 2 version 2.6.3502 for RTX64 4.5.
Since version 2.5.28702, this latest version brings the following improvements designed to offer you an enhanced user experience:
Automatic DC slaves calculation
Added automatic calculation of number DC slaves to be processed simultaneously, by loaded ENI file.DC offset calculation
DC offset calculation in chunks has been added. Limit of the number of DC slaves to be processed simultaneously is set with a new dc.slave.processing.count INI parameter.Mailbox size verification
Added mailbox default read size. Its value equals a value of a new mailbox.defaultreadsize INI parameter. The size of mailbox header, 6 bytes, is used as a default value of this parameter.Instrumented build
From now on it is possible to switch Master to instrumented build that allows to get kernel traces.- Licensing policy change
Starting from September 2023 we have disabled possibility to bind all new VS licenses to USB Flash drives. As an alternative, for "portable" licenses we suggest using secure Software protection system (with TDI Matrix USB dongle) provided by VS.
The changes will not affect the already generated license keys bound to USB Flash drives, they will work as before until reactivation would be needed (e.g. in case of hardware failure or loss).
Binding new "portable" licenses is possible only using VS Software protection system.