Cyclic Communication Function - Panasonic FP7 User Manual

2.2 Cyclic Communication Function

2.2 Cyclic Communication Function
The cyclic communication is a function for connecting from a scanner device to an adapter
device and sending data mutually in a specified cycle after completing the connection.
The scanner device is a controller such as PLC.
The adapter device is a device such as a robot controller, encoder or IO device.
Scan list is a list that defines the connections between the scanner device and multiple
adapter devices.
A constant cycle is called RPI (Requested Packet Interval).
The side which opens the connection of the cyclic communication is called originator, and the
side which the connection is opened is called target.
The scanner device can be used as the adapter device.
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