
Operating Instructions
Chapter
5
Flexi Soft Gateways
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Ethernet gateways
Step 2: Add the gateway to the project
In order to have the Flexi Soft system data available in the PLC process image, the gate-
way must be added to the hardware configuration first. The procedure associated with this
depends on the hardware configuration program of the PLC being used. On this topic,
please also read the documentation for the corresponding program.
The example below shows how to add the gateway to a SIEMENS SIMATIC Manager
project.
In the SIEMENS SIMATIC Hardware Manager, the gateway can be found in the hardware
catalogue under >>
PROFINET IO
>
Additional Field Devices
>
Gateway
>
FlexiSoft
.
Drag & drop the device into the Ethernet PROFINET IO network. Example:
After adding the device to the automation network it is required to configure which of the
cyclic data blocks will be used and where they will be addressed in memory. For details
refer to section 5.4.4 “PROFINET configuration of the gateway — Which data are trans-
ferred” on page 92.
Fig. 42: PROFINET IO gate-
way in the PROFINET IO
HW Config