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APPLICABILITY & EFFECTIVITY
Effective for all systems manufactured after May 1, 2001
Driver Manual
(Supplement to the FieldServer Instruction Manual)
FS-8700-20 Profibus DP
Driver Version:
1.02
Document Revision: 4
Page 1: ...r Company APPLICABILITY EFFECTIVITY Effective for all systems manufactured after May 1 2001 Driver Manual Supplement to the FieldServer Instruction Manual FS 8700 20 Profibus DP Driver Version 1 02 Document Revision 4 ...
Page 2: ...ion 6 4 Configuring the FieldServer as a Profibus DP Master 7 4 1 General 7 4 2 Data Arrays Descriptors 7 4 3 Client Side Connection Descriptions 8 4 4 Client Side Node Descriptors 8 4 5 Client Side Map Descriptors 9 4 6 Creating the Network Configuration File for the Master 10 5 Configuring the FieldServer as a Profibus DP Slave Only 13 5 1 General 13 5 2 Data Arrays Descriptors 13 5 3 Server Sid...
Page 3: ...ted The Profibus master configuration is created using a Profibus configuration tool The tool provided on the SST CD can be used to create this file As a slave the Profibus DP driver allows the FieldServer to be a single slave station to another master This slave is capable of transferring 244 bytes of input and 244 bytes of output to the other master If it is necessary to transfer more data to a ...
Page 4: ...r FieldServer Technologies PART Description SST 5136 PFB ISA Profibus ISA card SST CD For Profibus Interface Cards Profibus connector without terminating resistor FS 8700 20 Driver Manual 2 2 Provided by the Supplier of 3rd Party Equipment 2 2 1 Hardware PART DESCRIPTION Profibus DP Network Components PC for configuration tool Profibus connector with terminating resistor if required 2 2 2 Software...
Page 5: ...BASE NAME FILE NAME PROFIBUS DP CONNECTION DIAGRAM Phoenix Connector DB 9 Connector A B GND Comms LED 8 1 3 2 4 3 1 5 A B GND SST 5136 PFB ISA card NOTES 1 Connect only via the Phoenix or DB9 connector to the Profibus network 2 Terminate DB9 by connecting pin 1 2 and 4 5 on the Phoenix connector Sys LED OR 3 1 Hardware Troubleshooting During initialization the Profibus DP driver checks for the 513...
Page 6: ...ontinually try to detect the Profibus baud rate Once detected the FieldServer will go online and send its inputs to the master and receive its outputs from the master The size of the input and output buffers are determined by examining the Map Descriptors within the FieldServer configuration file 3 4 Using the SST Configuration Tool for Profibus Master Configuration To use the SST Configuration to...
Page 7: ...isplays on RUI editor Up to 15 alphanumeric characters System_Station_Address Profibus DP Master Station ID of the FieldServer 0 125 Example Common information FieldServer Title System_Station_Address Profibus DP Master 0 4 2 Data Arrays Descriptors Data Arrays are the neutral data buffers used by the FieldServer to pass data between communications drivers and are defined as follows Section Title ...
Page 8: ...ient Side Connections Connections Adapter Protocol Prof_DP Profibus_DP 4 4 Client Side Node Descriptors For each Profibus slave that the user wishes to access data on an entry into a node table must be made The table associates a name with the node number and connection Section Title Nodes Column Title Function Legal Values Node_Name Provide name for node Up to 32 alphanumeric characters Node_ID S...
Page 9: ...odes above Data_Type Data type FLOAT WORD BYTE BIT DP_Buffer Specify buffer in the DP card being accessed Input Output Address Address in DP_Buffer being accessed expressed in byte offset 0 243 Note When using Data_Type BIT the address is in bit e g from 0 1951 Length Number of points in DP_Buffer being accessed expressed in points defined by Data_Type 1 1952 depending on Data_Type e g when Data T...
Page 10: ...n File for the Master The output of this procedure is a bridge bss file that has to be downloaded to the FieldServer 1 Start the SST Profibus Network Configuration Tool and drag the 5136 PFB ISA MASTER Rev 1 3 Master device into the right hand window pane 2 Set the Station to be the same as defined under System_Station_Address in the config csv file Click OK to close the Master window 3 Right clic...
Page 11: ...ns Click OK to complete the network configuration 5 Drag your Slave devices onto the right window pane and configure them as per manufacturer s instructions Choose a unique Station ID for each Slave There has to be Node descriptor with matching Node ID to Station ID for each Slave setup in the FieldServer s config csv file Important Note All Profibus Masters check for a match in the connection siz...
Page 12: ...ornia 95035 USA Web www fieldServer com Tel 408 262 2299 Fax 408 262 9042 Toll_Free 888 509 1970 email support fieldServer com 6 Right click on the PFB_ISA_MASTER Icon and select Export Binary and create a file called bridge bss Download this file to your FieldServer using Ruinet and restart the FieldServer ...
Page 13: ...le displays on RUI editor Up to 15 alphanumeric characters System_Station_Address Profibus DP Slave Station ID of the FieldServer 0 125 Example Common information FieldServer Title System_Station_Address Profibus DP Slave 1 5 2 Data Arrays Descriptors Data Arrays are the neutral data buffers used by the FieldServer to pass data between communications drivers and are defined as follows Section Titl...
Page 14: ...col used Profibus_DP Profibus_DP_Baud Specifies network baudrate 9600 19200 93 75K 187 5K 500K 750K 1 5M 3M 6M 12M Example Client Side Connections Connections Adapter Protocol Profibus_DP_Baud Prof_DP Profibus_DP 19200 5 4 Server Side Node Descriptors Section Title Nodes Column Title Function Legal Values Node_Name Provide name for node Up to 32 alphanumeric characters Node_ID Station ID of the Sl...
Page 15: ...Side Nodes above Data_Type Data type FLOAT WORD BYTE BIT DP_Buffer Specify buffer in the DP card being accessed Input Output Address Address in DP_Buffer being accessed expressed in byte offset 0 243 Note When using Data_Type BIT the address is in bit eg from 0 1951 Length Number of points in DP_Buffer being accessed expressed in points defined by Data_Type 1 1952 depending on Data_Type eg when Da...
Page 16: ...Type Address Length Each Map Descriptor also specifies the Profibus DP data type The data arrives from a Slave or is sent from a Master as a sequence of bytes By specifying the DP data type the driver knows how to interpret the bytes within the buffer The supported types are Bit Byte Word and Float To indicate where in the buffer to access the data the Address field is used For Byte Word and Float...
Page 17: ... DP Slave DP_Buffer Function Output RDBC Input WRBC The diagram below explains the data flows for both buffers when using the FieldServer as a DP Master Note that for the Input buffer the data is coming from the external DP Slave and is transferred into the DP Master card s internal input buffer The Map Descriptor being of the RDBC function Read Data Block Continuous transfers the data from the ca...
Page 18: ...m 0 243 243 0 1 1 1 243 0 1 243 Card input buffer Card output buffer Card input buffer SST 5136 PFB ISA DP Master External DP Slave 01 WRBC Mapdesc Data Array RDBC Mapdesc Profibus Network FieldServer Data Array DP_Buffer Input DP_Buffer Output 0 Card output buffer 0 1 243 0 1 243 Card output buffer Card input buffer External DP Slave 126 Note The Node ID determines to which external DP slave the ...
Page 19: ... via the network configuration tool to select the bytes to be used or the byte make up will be fixed and specified in the gse Either way the largest byte offset used by the client must match the largest byte offset configured in the FieldServer o When selecting byte count with a network configuration tool the total amount of bytes words bits setup per Input Output buffer in the FieldServer configu...
Page 20: ...ization The Data Type Offset Length combination may be incorrectly set up o In the FieldServer configuration the Offset Parameter almost always refers to the buffer offset in bytes starting at 0 regardless of data type The only exception is the BIT data type which specifies offset in bits to allow for offsets that are not a multiple of 8 The Length parameter always refers to length in items which ...
Page 21: ...dServer com Appendix C 3 Error and Informational Messages on Ruinet E and F screens Master Mode not enabled This message means that the FieldServer is not set up to be a Profibus DP Master This indicates that the FieldServer did not find a Master scanner file bridge bss This message is normal if you configured the FieldServer to be a DP Slave See the sections on configuring the FieldServer as eith...
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