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Motion Bus and Fieldbuses

Depending on the fieldbus used in your project (EtherCATEtherCAT is an open, high-performance Ethernet-based fieldbus system. The development goal of EtherCAT was to apply Ethernet to automation applications which require short data update times (also called cycle times) with low communication jitter (for synchronization purposes) and low hardware costs, Profinet, etc.), you have to make use of the configuration tools discussed below. The PDMM or PCMM can be connected to multiple EthernetEthernet is a large, diverse family of frame-based computer networking technologies that operate at many speeds for local area networks (LANs) devices simultaneously by connecting a switch to the X32 port on the top of the device.

See Performance Guidelines for information on how the CPU load is affected when transmitting and receiving data between network devices and PLC"Programmable Logic Controller" A Programmable Logic Controller, PLC, or Programmable Controller is a digital computer used for automation of industrial processes, such as control of machinery on factory assembly lines. Used to synchronize the flow of inputs from (physical) sensors and events with the flow of outputs to actuators and events variables

EtherCAT

For configuration, Configure EtherCAT Motion Bus
For I/O mapping, Map Input and Output to Variables
For error management, EtherCAT Error Messages

See the Beckhoff Web site for EtherCAT XML"Extensible Markup Language " XML is a general-purpose markup language. It is classified as an extensible language because it allows its users to define their own tags Device Description.

Ethernet/IP

The KAS RuntimeIn computer science, runtime (or run-time) describes the operation of a computer program, the duration of its execution, from beginning to termination (compare compile time). Within KAS, runtime also refers to the virtual machine that manage the program written in a computer language while it is running includes a fully integrated Ethernet/IP Adapter driver and Scanner driver for exchanging data with Ethernet/IP tag-based devices such as PLCs. Ethernet/IP Adapter (server), Scanner (client), Tag Client, and FlexIO/Point IO configurations are supported. The mapping of PLC variables to Profinet is as simple as a drag and drop.

Setting up Ethernet/IP IO Scanner (Client)
Setting up Ethernet/IP Adapter (Server)
Setting up Ethernet/IP Tag Client

Modbus & TCP/IP

Setting up Modbus Slave

Profinet

This fieldbus is Profibus"Process Field Bus" Profibus is the most popular type of fieldbus (see Fieldbus entry in the glossary) used worldwide over ethernet. We define one controller and have 1 or more devices.

For configuring the controller, see Profinet IO RT Controller Configuration .
For configuring devices, see Profinet IO RT Device Configuration.

Profibus

This fieldbus can be used to set the communication between a Profibus master (e.g. AKC with a PCI card) and Profibus slaves (e.g. Wago couplers and I/O terminals)

For configuring the Profibus master, Profibus Configuration
For I/O mapping, I/O Mapping (for Profibus Fieldbus)

Profibus Library

Profibus Configuration

Profibus IO Mapping

Add Unsupported EtherCAT Device

Fieldbus Editor

Performance Guidelines

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