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Commands SYNC / FREEZE
14 Commands SYNC / FREEZE
The Profibus component supports the Profibus commands SYNC/UNSYNC and FREEZE/UNFREEZE. These
commands are used to synchronize a number of slaves.
With the FREEZE command, all the slaves keep their input data. They are then read out in sequence by the
bus master. As all the slaves keep their inputs simultaneously with the FREEZE command, the bus master is
given a process pattern of all the slaves at a defined time. With the UNFREEZE command, this state is
cancelled and the slaves update their inputs again.
With the SYNC command, all the slaves retain their current outputs. Subsequently arriving data are not put
through to the outputs, but buffered. The bus master can give new commands to the slaves and activate
all the slaves simultaneously with the UNSYNC command. They immediately transfer the buffer data to
their outputs with the UNSYNC command.
15 Available Objects / Scanning Times
If a Profibus slave has been recognized, parameterized and configured by its master on the bus, there is a
cyclic exchange of data with the Profibus DATA_EXCHANGE service, in which the output data are
transmitted from the master to the slave and the input data from the slave to the master in one cycle.
The repetition rate with which the slaves carry out the exchange of data with the master, the so-called bus
rotation time, is a function of the transmission rate, the number of subscribers and the size of the objects
transmitted. If there are few subscribers, a high transmission rate and short objects being exchanged, bus
rotation times of 1 to 2 ms are possible.
It is therefore sensible to configure the objects to suit the application. Depending on the application the
focus can be transmission speed, number of objects or a combination of both.
The configured data exchange objects have principally two components, which are either completely, partly
or not at all existent with the differing object configurations. These components are the communication
channel and the process data channel.
The communication channel (PKW object) is used for accessing (write/read) parameters in the
frequency inverter. An exception is formed by the string parameters, to which there is NO access. The
communication proceeds according to a firmly defined hand-shake process and lasts for a number of
DATA_EXCHANGE cycles.
The process data channel (PZD objects) is processed in every cycle. The reference values are accepted
and the actual values forwarded. Therefore a data update takes place with every DATA_EXCHANGE.
Direction of transmission Master
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Slave (OUT)
Communication Channel Process Data Channel
PKW area PZD area
PKE IND PWE PWE PZD 1 PZD 2 PZD x PZD x PZD x PZD x
PWEh PWEl STW HSW Outx Outx Outx Outx
PKW Parameter identification value
PZD Process data channel STW = Control word HSW = Main reference value
Outx = user defined