Library.GetDCSystemTime Method

Gets the timestamp of the selected Sync0’s signal of the distributed clock (DC).

Namespace: IntervalZero.MaxRT.Ecat.Api.NetApi
Assembly: IntervalZero.MaxRT.Ecat (in IntervalZero.MaxRT.Ecat.dll) Version: 1.0.0.0 (File version: 1.1.0)

Syntax

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public EcatErrorCode GetDCSystemTime(
    EcatHandle mainDevice,
    DcCycle cycle,
    ref ulong time
)

Parameters

mainDevice

Type: EcatHandle
A handle to a MainDevice. To retrieve the corresponding handle, use CreateMainDevice or OpenMainDevice.

cycle

Type: DcCycle
The DC system time to acquire.

time

Type: UInt64
A reference to a variable that stores the DC system time.

Return Value

EcatErrorCode is thrown when any of these errors occur:

Error code	Meaning
ecatErrNoError	The function succeeded.
ecatErrWrongParameter	One of the following conditions occurred: Parameter mainDevice is invalid. Parameter cycle is invalid.
ecatErrMainDeviceNotReady	The MainDevice instance does not exist.
ecatErrWrongEnvironment	The MainDevice has not started.