Kunbus PROFINET IRT Slave, User Manual

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Gateway PROFINET IRT Slave 8
3 Overview
3.1 Functionality
The KUNBUS Gateway is a protocol converter. It allows communication between networks with
different protocols.
Illustration 1: Functionality as a slave
A Gateway consists of 2 gateway components that master one specific protocol each. You can
combine these gateway components as you wish. This design offers you a high degree of flexibility,
since you can exchange the individual gateway components at any time. The following gateway
components are currently available as slaves:
– CANopen
– DeviceNet
– EtherCAT
– EtherNet/IP
– Modbus RTU
– Modbus TCP
– POWERLINK
– PROFIBUS
– PROFINET
– Sercos III
The gateway component for DMX can be operated as a master or slave.
In addition, you can combine the Gateway component with the RevPi Core and the RevPi Connect.
Overview