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Chapter 4 PROFIBUS communication
Manual VIPA System 200V
4-4
HB97E - CPU - RE_21x-2BM03 - Rev. 14/44
As transfer medium PROFIBUS uses an isolated drilled 2 core line based
upon the RS485 interface or a duplex optical waveguide (OWG). The
transfer rate is for both methods max. 12Mbaud.
The RS485 interface is working with voltage differences. Though it is less
irritable from failures than a voltage or a current interface. You are able to
configure the network as well linear as in a tree structure. Your VIPA
PROFIBUS coupler includes a 9pin slot where you link up the PROFIBUS
coupler into the PROFIBUS network as a slave.
The bus structure under RS485 allows an easy connection resp.
disconnection of stations as well as starting the system step by step. Later
expansions don’t have any influence on stations that are already integrated.
The system realizes automatically if one partner had a fail down or if it is
new in the network.
The optical waveguide system uses monochromatic light impulses. The
optical waveguide is totally independent from disturbing voltage from other
machines. An optical waveguide system is built up linear. Every module
has to be connected with two links: one input link and one back. You don’t
need to terminate the last module.
For the structure is a linear one, connecting and disconnecting stations is
not free of consequences.
Every partner of the PROFIBUS network has to identify itself with a certain
address. This address may be existing only one time in the bus system and
has a value between 0 and 125.
At the CPU 21xDPM you choose the address via your software tool.
To configure the slave connections in your own configuration tool, you’ve
got all the information about your VIPA modules in form of an electronic
data sheet file (German:
G
eräte
s
tamm
d
atei = GSD-file
).
Structure and content of this file are dictated by the PROFIBUS User
Organization (PNO) and may be seen there.
Install the GSD-file in your configuration tool. Look for more information in
the online help of the according tool.
Transfer medium
Electrical system
over RS485
Optical system via
fiber optic (FO)
Addressing
Electronic Data
Sheet
(GSD-file)