May 2018
This file contains important information about the NI-Industrial Communications for CANopen, including system requirements, installation instructions, new features and changes, a partial list of bugs fixed, and how to access the help and examples.
Caution The NI-Industrial Communications for CANopen 18.0 software or later requires the NI 9881 module with the updated firmware. When you upgrade the software to the 18.0 version or later, check the software version of the media that shipped with the NI 9881 module. If the version is not 18.0 or later, or you are not sure of the version number, NI recommends that you update the firmware. Otherwise, when you use NI-Industrial Communications for CANopen 18.0 or later, firmware images corrupt or get mismatched. Ensure that you have appropriate hardware and software installed and complete the following task to upgrade the firmware.
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Product Security and Critical Updates
Automating the Installation of NI Products
Using NI Software with Microsoft Windows 10
Using NI Software with Microsoft Windows 8.1
The NI-Industrial Communications for CANopen software contains an extensive library of VIs and properties in LabVIEW. Use these VIs and properties to program CANopen master applications that comply with the CiA DS-301 standard. You can deploy the applications to RT targets. This software also provides built-in functionality for device configuration and online test panel in LabVIEW.
Refer to Supported Hardware and Software for NI-Industrial Communications for CANopen, for a complete list of NI hardware and software supported by each NI CANopen interface.
NI-Industrial Communications for CANopen supports the following operating systems:
1 NI software installs VC2015 Runtime and .NET 4.6.2. Windows 8.1 and Windows Server 2012 R2 require Microsoft updates to support these items. Refer to Microsoft KB2919442 and KB2919355 for more information about how to install these updates.
2 NI software is signed with a SHA-256 certificate. Windows 7 SP1, Windows Embedded Standard 7 SP1, and Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 require Microsoft updates to support SHA-256. Refer to Microsoft KB3033929 for more information about how to install this security update.
Note In 2016 NI-Industrial Communications for CANopen dropped support for Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, and installations of Windows 7 without any service packs. NI-Industrial Communications for CANopen 18.0 will not install or run on an unsupported OS. You cannot deploy or distribute applications that use NI-Industrial Communications for CANopen 18.0 to an unsupported OS. Additionally, after installing NI-Industrial Communications for CANopen 18.0, you cannot use any installers built on this computer with any version of LabVIEW, LabWindows™/CVI™, NI TestStand™, or Measurement Studio on an unsupported OS.
For more information about the changes to our OS support for 2016, refer to KB 79UC78LS, Why Does My NI ADE Installer Fail on Windows XP/Vista and Windows Server 2003?.
Note Support for Windows 32-bit operating systems may require disabling physical address extension (PAE). To learn how this might affect your system and what actions you might need to take, visit ni.com/info and enter the Info Code PAESupport.
Note Upgrading Windows 8.0 to Windows 8.1 with the NI-Industrial Communications for CANopen software installed might result in device configuration information damage and ostensible disconnection between devices. NI recommends that you reinstall the NI-Industrial Communications for CANopen software after upgrading the operating system.
Before installing the NI-Industrial Communications for CANopen software, log on as Administrator or as a user with Administrator privileges. The NI-Industrial Communications for CANopen software setup program must have Administrator privileges, because the program modifies the configuration registry of your system. Complete the following steps to install the NI-Industrial Communications for CANopen software:
Complete the following steps to install the NI-Industrial Communications for CANopen software on an RT target in NI Measurement & Automation Explorer (MAX):
Visit ni.com/security to view and subscribe to receive security notifications about NI products. Visit ni.com/critical-updates for information about critical updates from NI.
You can access the software and documentation known issues list online. Refer to the NI website for an up-to-date list of known issues in the NI-Industrial Communications for CANopen.
The following items are the IDs and titles of a subset of issues fixed in NI-Industrial Communications for CANopen 15.0. This is not an exhaustive list of issues fixed in the current version of NI-Industrial Communications for CANopen. If you have a CAR ID, you can search this list to validate that the issue has been fixed.
| ID | Fixed Issue |
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| 533911 | NI-Industrial Communications for CANopen 14.5 reads TPDO incorrectly |
The following items are the IDs and titles of a subset of issues fixed in NI-Industrial Communications for CANopen 14.5. This is not an exhaustive list of issues fixed in the current version of NI-Industrial Communications for CANopen. If you have a CAR ID, you can search this list to validate that the issue has been fixed.
| ID | Fixed Issue |
|---|---|
| 511845 | Add error codes to report issues when using CANopen 14.5 on the NI 9881 module with outdated files |
The following items are the IDs and titles of a subset of issues fixed in NI-Industrial Communications for CANopen 1.0.2. This is not an exhaustive list of issues fixed in the current version of NI-Industrial Communications for CANopen. If you have a CAR ID, you can search this list to validate that the issue has been fixed.
| ID | Fixed Issue |
|---|---|
| 335637 | LabVIEW crashes when some EDS files are being parsed |
| 351959 | The SDO confirmation frame should be ignored if its index/subindex is wrong |
The following items are the IDs and titles of a subset of issues fixed in NI-Industrial Communications for CANopen 1.0.1. This is not an exhaustive list of issues fixed in the current version of NI-Industrial Communications for CANopen. If you have a CAR ID, you can search this list to validate that the issue has been fixed.
| ID | Fixed Issue |
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| 310647 | Allow users to choose whether to enable onboard termination |
Refer to the NI-Industrial Communications for CANopen Help, accessible by selecting Help»NI-Industrial Communications for CANopen in LabVIEW, for information about using the NI-Industrial Communications for CANopen software.
Select Help»Find Examples from LabVIEW to launch the NI Example Finder. LabVIEW examples for the NI-Industrial Communications for CANopen software are in the labview\examples\NI-Industrial Communications for CANopen folder. You can modify an example VI to fit an application, or you can copy and paste from one or more examples into a VI that you create.
You can automate the installation of most NI products using command-line arguments to suppress some or all of the installer user interface and dialog boxes.
If the NI product you are installing uses Microsoft .NET 4.0, the .NET installer may run before any NI software installs and may require a reboot before the installation of NI software begins. To avoid a .NET reboot, install .NET 4.0 separately before you install NI software.
For more information about automating the installation of NI products, refer to the following KnowledgeBase articles:
Microsoft Windows 10 is the latest version of the Windows operating system and features significant changes compared to previous versions. Windows 10 introduces several new capabilities and also combines features from both Windows 7 and Windows 8. For more information about NI support for Windows 10, visit ni.com/windows10.
When you install NI software on Microsoft Windows 8.1, you will notice a few additional tiles in the Apps view, including shortcuts to NI application software products such as NI LabVIEW, NI Measurement & Automation Explorer (MAX), and NI Launcher. For more information about NI support for Windows 8.1, visit ni.com/windows8.
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