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AS-Interface
Function and startup of the Safety Monitor
8.6
Safe coupling slaves on the AS-i circuits
The two AS-i circuits are capable of emulating a total of up to sixteen safe cou-
pling slaves.
The assignment of the coupling slaves addresses to the release circuits is made
using the ASIMON software.
8.7
Chip card
The chip card is divided into two areas. One area is reserved for unsafe data and
administration, the other for safe data.
8.7.1
Unsafe data
This section describes the system behavior of the unsafe system section when
using the chip card.
8.7.1.1
Card unformatted
If an unformatted card is found when the device is started, the following is dis-
played:
The chip card is formatted and then the data copied to the chip card.
Warning!
Always turn off power before inserting or removing the card.
NEW CHIPCARD
WILL BE FORMATED
AS-I DATA WILL
BE SYNCHRONIZED
