• The Esmacat Master S, Esmacat Master C or PC with Windows/Linux will be the EtherCAT Master of the system. Ensure that your Master is connected to a display, keyboard and mouse for the implementation of this tutorial. o NOTE: please refer to https://www.esmacat.com/tutorials for Esmacat Master Software development environment and building the Master
• The master communicates with the EASE slave via an Ethernet cable
• A POE (Power Over EtherCAT) injector is connected in series with the slave and the master, to ensure that the slave receives logic power (24VDC) over the same cable that carries the data for communication. The Ethernet cable from the Master is plugged into the input of the POE injector. The output of the POE injector is plugged into EASE’s IN port.
• EASE is directly mounted on the Mbed Board.
• The basic hardware connection of EASE is illustrated below

The physical hardware connection of EASE for this example is as below.

The following figure shows the data exchange happening betweenEsmacat Master, EASE and Base Board in this example application.