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ifm Device Manual AS-i IO-Link-Gateway (AC5225) Firmware V1.16 2017-11-20
Glossary of Terms
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AS-i phases (status machine)
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Offline phase: No AS-i data traffic takes place during initialisation.
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Detection phase: In the detection phase, the AS-i master first of all searches for existing slaves -
irrespective of whether they are projected or not.
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Activation phase: In this phase, the found slaves are activated depending on the operating mode.
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Data exchange phase: The AS-i master carries out cyclical data exchange with the activated
slaves.
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Management phase: At the end of a cycle the AS-i master goes into the management phase,
during which the master can send a command to a specific slave (if requested).
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Inclusion phase: After this, the AS-i master goes into the inclusion phase, during which it sends a
command to a free slave address to detect new slaves.
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ASIsafe
The name for 'Safety at Work' used by Siemens.
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Assembly Instance
Assembly Instances are parameters of a logical connection (
→Connection). The describe which data
at which length are to be transmitted between the communication nodes.
The following Assembly Instances exist:
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Input
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Output
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Configuration
In a logical connection each of these Assembly Instances can only be used once . The Assembly
Instance type Configuration must only be used once in an Assembly Instance for one and the same
communication node.