Omron SCARA Robots YRCX Series, User Manual

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GSD files
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7. GSD files
GSD (General Station Description) is a type of network setting file. It contains settings for a device that
supports PROFIBUS or PROFINET.
The network settings file contains information necessary for connecting to a host device, such as I/O size and
communication settings, in a prescribed format. When constructing a network, the settings information of all
connected network devices must be loaded into the host control device.
The appropriate engineering or configuration tool is used to make settings for and write to the host control
device, and during this process it will be necessary to load each device's network settings file into the tool.
The steps for loading the file will depend on the host device used, and on the tool that supports it. Refer to the
manual for the device and tool.