/**
 * \mainpage Simple Open EtherCAT Slave or SOES
 *
 * \section start Tutorial
 * For a tutorial on SOES  See tutorial.txt
 * 
 * \section overview Overview
 * SOES is an EtherCAT slave stack written in c. Its purpose is to learn and
 * to use. All users are invited to study the source to get an understanding
 * how an EtherCAT slave function
 *
 * Features as of 1.0.0 :
 * - Address offset based HAL for easy ESC read/write access via any interface
 * - Mailbox with data link layer
 * - CoE
 * - Object dictionary
 * - SDO read and write for all sizes including segmented transfers
 * - Easy portable C-code suited for embedded applications
 * - Fixed PDO mapping
 * - FoE with bootstrap template
 * - Support for Little and Big endian targets.
 * - Polling for interrupts
 *
 * \section legal Legal notice
 * SOES Simple Open EtherCAT Slave \n
 * Copyright (C) 2007-2013 Arthur Ketels \n
 * Copyright (C) 2012-2013 rt-labs \n
 *
 * SOES is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
 * the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 as published by the Free
 * Software Foundation.
 *
 * SOES is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY
 * WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or
 * FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU General Public License
 * for more details.
 *
 * As a special exception, if other files instantiate templates or use macros
 * or inline functions from this file, or you compile this file and link it
 * with other works to produce a work based on this file, this file does not
 * by itself cause the resulting work to be covered by the GNU General Public
 * License. However the source code for this file must still be made available
 * in accordance with section (3) of the GNU General Public License.
 *
 * This exception does not invalidate any other reasons why a work based on
 * this file might be covered by the GNU General Public License.
 *
 * The EtherCAT Technology, the trade name and logo "EtherCAT" are the intellectual
 * property of, and protected by Beckhoff Automation GmbH.
 */