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Operating Instructions
Chapter
5
Flexi Soft Gateways
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Ethernet gateways
Gateway is slave
To do in the gateway configuration (via Flexi
Soft Designer tool)
To do in the PLC program and/or Modbus TCP
network configuration tool
Select
PLC requests
and
PLC writes
in the gateway
configuration dialog
–
–
Define which data shall be written to/read from the
gateway.
Ensure the PLC program writes the data into the
addresses defined for the gateway (see Tab. 62 on
page 82).
The Modbus TCP gateway address setting is based 1. Please add 1 to the holding register
address set in the Flexi Soft Designer for an address setting based 0.
Master mode — FX0-GMOD reads from/writes to the PLC
In order to configure the gateway to be
master
, perform the following steps:
Open the Flexi Soft Designer and load the hardware configuration including the Modbus
TCP gateway.
Click on the
Gateways
button above the main window and select the FX0-GMOD or
double click the FX0-GMOD in the hardware configuration view to open the gateway
configuration dialog.
Click on
Gateway configuration
on the left hand menu. The following dialog appears:
Within the
Gateway configuration
dialog, select the transfer method by checking
Gateway writes to tag/file
for the Flexi Soft to Network direction and
Gateway reads
from register
for the Network to Flexi Soft direction.
Select which data shall be written to/read from the PLC by checking the checkbox for
the required data set. For the exact description of the data sets please refer to sec-
tion 3.3 “Data transmitted into the network (input data sets)” on page 14.
Tab. 61: Configuration guide-
line — Gateway as slave
Note
Fig. 37: Modbus TCP gateway
configuration as master