Description of the device
1.3 Characteristics
1.3
Characteristics
Characteristics
You can operate the PC Adapter USB A2 on MPI and PROFIBUS networks.
The following table shows which transmission speeds are supported by the PC Adapter USB
A2 on which network type.
Table 1- 1
Bus profiles and transmission speeds
Transmission
MPI
speed
9.6 kbps
19.2 kbps
45.45 kbps
93.75 kbps
187.5 kbps
500 kbps
1.5 Mbps
3 Mbps
6 Mbps
12 Mbps
(✓)* The PPI bus profile can be used via the "Universal" PROFIBUS bus profile
Further features
• Automatic bus profile detection
• Up to 16 communications connections of which a maximum of 4 can be slaves (DP/T
connections)
• Support of routing
• The PC Adapter USB A2 supports the following access to DP slaves:
– Slave address assignment
– Device diagnostics
– Read/write data record
10
PPI
PROFIBUS
DP
-
(✓)*
✓
(✓)*
-
-
-
-
✓
(✓)*
-
-
✓
-
✓
-
✓
-
✓
-
Standard
✓
✓
✓
✓
✓
✓
✓
✓
✓
✓
✓
✓
✓
✓
✓
✓
✓
✓
✓
✓
Operating Instructions, 07/2022, C79000-G8976-C293-03
Universal
User defined
✓
✓
-
✓
✓
✓
✓
-
-
-
✓
✓
✓
✓
✓
✓
✓
✓
✓
✓
PC Adapter USB A2