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Outputting Data and Controlling Operation through EtherNet/IP
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Types of Communications Areas
For EtherNet/IP communications, the following three communications areas are used in the PLC to perform
communications.
Areas Used for the Different Control Methods
*1 The response area (2) and output area (3) are assigned to continuous memory addresses or to a variable.
Command/response
communications (1) Command area This is the area to which you write control commands for
the Vision Sensor to execute.
(2) Response area This is the area to which the Vision Sensor writes the
results of control commands executed from the command
area.
Data output after mea-
surements (3) Output area This is the area to which the Vision Sensor writes output
data for measurements after an inspection is performed.
(1) Command area
PLC
• Control inp u ts
• Command code
• Command parameters
(2) Response area
(3) O u tp u t area
• Control o u tp u ts
• Command code
• Response code
• Response data
• O u tp u t data 0 to 64
V ision Sensor
Exec u tion
After meas u rements
O u tp u t Tag Set
Inp u t Tags
*1
O u tp u t Tags
Inp u t Tag Set
Inp u t Tag Set O u tp u t Tag Set
20 b ytes
16 b ytes
32 to
256 b ytes
The control commands that are
w ritten to the Command Area
are exec u ted.
Meas u rement res u lts are
w ritten to the response area
in the PLC.
The exec u tion res u lts
from the V ision Sensor
are w ritten here.
O u tp u t data from the
V ision Sensor is w ritten
here.
Meas u rement res u lts are
w ritten to the o u tp u t area.
The follo w ing control commands
are w ritten to the V ision Sensor.
Inp u t
connection
to Sensor
O u tp u t
connection
to PLC
Response
Command