Software section
3.1 Creating the project and hardware
Result
The I/O systems have been created in the hardware configuration, but not yet assigned to
the CPU 1511-1 PN. They are both displayed under "Unassigned devices" in the project
view.
Additional information
The SIMATIC ET 200 product family offers different scalable I/O systems to suit your specific
application.
You will find more information about the SIMATIC ET 200 distributed I/O on the Internet at
(http://www.automation.siemens.com/mcms/distributed-io/en/).
3.1.6
Networking ET 200 interface modules
Introduction
In the following section, you will create a PROFINET I/O system.
A PROFINET I/O system consists of the PROFINET IO controller and its assigned
PROFINET IO devices:
● The CPU 1511-1 PN you already created is used as PROFINET IO controller.
● The two distributed I/O systems are used as PROFINET IO devices.
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