Management of optional structures in CANopen projects
CANopen systems with alternative devices can be designed and maintained with existing system tools and in compliance with standard process and file formats. However, a new approach had to be developed for efficiently coping the optional structures, without violating CANopen network project model and data models used by the tools existing in the market. The main advantage is, that human mistakes may be avoided by letting dedicated application to search for compatible component and toggle between the already selected optional components. In addition to the avoided mistakes, the search and toggle performance is significantly improved.
