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Addressing of the individual nodes
The addresses of all the slave nodes
must be programmed before AS-Inter-
face is put into operation. You can do
this offline with an addressing device,
online at the master of the AS-Interface
system, or after installation using inte-
grated addressing sockets.
The addresses themselves are the val-
ues 1 to 31 or 1 A/B to 31 A/B with the
extended specification. A new slave that
has not yet been addressed has address
0 A new slave that has not yet been ad-
dressed is assigned the address 0. It is
then recognised by the master as a new
slave that has not yet been addressed,
a state in which it is not yet involved in
normal communication procedures.
The slaves can be assigned any address
– it does not matter whether a slave as-
signed address 21 is followed by slave
28, or whether the first slave is assigned
address 1.
Configuring
As far as AS-Interface is concerned, con-
figuring means nothing more than draw-
ing up a list of the configured slaves and
then storing it in the master. Configur-
ing is usually performed at the master,
which means that the master automat-
ically reads in the network configuration.
(The user can also make settings for
special applications at the PLC).
The slave address and the slave type (ID
code), the I/O configuration (I/O code),
and the parameters (in the case of in-
telligent sensors), if they exist, are de-
fined during configuration. The master
uses this list to check that the configu-
ration programmed matches the actual
configuration. Before this is possible,
the slaves must be addressed.
Addressing unit
for AS-Interface
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