Product Overview
Windows Automation Center, WinAC Slot Version 4.0
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Communication
If you want to perform communication via Industrial Ethernet or a PROFIBUS
subnet, a communication module (CP) must be installed in your PC.
The
options for communicating
with other nodes are:
•
Connection to PROFIBUS DP via the integrated interface
•
Connection to MPI or PROFIBUS DP via the second integrated interface
•
Connection to PC via the PCI interface
•
Connection to another network such as Industrial Ethernet/PROFIBUS via a
communications processor (CP)
Technology on the PC
WinAC Slot is equipped with a shared memory interface on the PCI bus. This
enables very fast data exchange between a PC application and WinAC Slot.
Development of this PC application is supported through WinAC ODK 4.1.
Multi Slot
You can operate up to four CPUs 41x-2 PCI in one PC or up to three
CPUs 41x-2 PCI together with WinAC Basis V4.1 and higher or WinAC RTX V4.1
and higher.
Each of the CPUs works autonomously, i.e., operating states are not coordinated
and the CPUs do not have any common I/O or data areas. Thus, multi-slot mode is
not the same as "multicomputing" in the S7-400.
Components
The following components are available for setting up and commissioning WinAC
Slot:
Component
Function
Illustration
CPU
•
CPU 412-2 PCI
•
CPU 416-2 PCI
•
Executes the user program.
•
Communicates with other
CPUs or with a
programming device via the
MPI interface.
•
Communicates with DP
masters and DP slaves via
the DP interface.
•
Communicates with
applications in the PC via
the PCI interface.
