Chapter
3
Operating Instructions
Flexi Soft Gateways
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Product description Flexi Soft
gateways
3.3
Data transmitted into the network (input data sets)
Available data
The Flexi Soft gateways can provide the following data:
Operational data
–
Logic results
from the Flexi Soft main module (FX3-CPUx) (see section 3.3.1 on
page 17)
–
Input values
(HIGH/LOW) for all Flexi Soft input extension modules in the system and
EFI devices connected (see section 3.3.2 auf Seite 17)
–
Output values
(HIGH/LOW) for all Flexi Soft input/output extension modules and EFI
devices connected (see section 3.3.2 on page 17)
–
Output data
from another network, i.e. data received by a second gateway in the
Flexi Soft system (see section 3.3.4 on page 19)
–
Gateway direct output values
: It is possible to write logic results directly from the
logic editor into the gateway (see section 7.3.5 on page 178).
Diagnostics data
–
Checksums
(CRCs) (see section 3.3.5 on page 19)
–
Error and status information
for all modules except the UE410-2RO and UE410-4RO
(see section 3.3.6 on page 19)
Data sets
The physical Flexi Soft modules are not represented as typical hardware modules in the
network. Instead, the data available from the Flexi Soft system has been organized into
four
input data sets
.
Data set 1
(max. 50 bytes) contains the operational data. It can be compiled using the
Flexi Soft Designer tool. Upon delivery there is a default selection for the content of data
set 1 which can be freely modified. For details see Tab. 5 on page 16.
For the FX0-GPNT and the FX0-GPRO, data set 1 has been subdivided in five
input data
blocks
, where data block 1-4 contain 12 bytes each and data block 5 contains two
bytes. The FX0-GCAN holds four process data objects (PDOs) with 8 bytes each. For
detailed information see the section on the related gateway.
Data set 2
(32 bytes) contains the system configuration CRCs. See Tab. 5 on page 16.
Data set 3
(60 bytes) contains the individual module status and diagnostics data with
four (4) bytes per module. See section 3.3.6 “Error and status information of the
modules” on page 19 for details.
Data set 4
(60 bytes) is currently filled with reserved values.