
Address Space Overview
Slave Controller – Register Description II-1
1 Address Space Overview
An EtherCAT Slave Controller (ESC) has an address space of 64KByte. The first block of 4KByte
(0x0000:0x0FFF) is dedicated for registers. The Process Data RAM starts at address 0x1000, its size
depends on the ESC. The availability of the registers depends on the ESC.
Table 1: ESC address space
Configured Station Address
Write Register Protection
Physical Read/Write Offset
SYNC/LATCH[1:0] PDI Configuration
Extended PDI Configuration
Address areas not listed here are reserved. They are not writable. Read data from reserved addresses has to be
ignored. Reserved addresses must not be written.
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