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SmartWire-DT Gateway | EU5C-SWD-POWERLINK
DOC130802UM02EN | Revision 2 | English | 2013-12 | Released | Public
© Hilscher 2013
3 Descriptions
and
Requirements
3.1
Device Description EU5C-SWD-POWERLINK Gateway
3.1.1
Function
The EU5C-SWD-POWERLINK Gateway integrates a SmartWire-DT
network into an Ethernet POWERLINK network. The Gateway creates a
data connection between the participants (the slave devices) of the
subordinate SmartWire-DT network and the Managing Node (the master
device or PLC) of the super ordinate POWERLINK network.
The gateway acts as master in the SmartWire-DT network on the one hand,
and on the other hand as modular Controlled Node (slave device) in the
POWERLINK network. It thereby presents each connected SmartWire-DT
participant as individual module to the POWERLINK Managing Node.
The cyclic process data is exchanged transparently between both
networks. 1000 Bytes of process input/output data can in sum be
exchanged with up to 99 SmartWire-DT participants (slaves).
Figure 1: Data Flow EU5C-SWD-POWERLINK Gateway
