Configure Distributed I/O On A Devicenet Network - Allen-Bradley 1769 User Manual

Chapter 6 Place, Configure, and Monitor I/O
Configure Distributed I/O
on a DeviceNet Network
For a typical distributed I/O network...
Single Network
Controller
Several Smaller Distributed Networks (subnets)
Controller Scanner
Device
...you build the I/O configuration in this order
Add the local scanner module.
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To communicate with the I/O modules over a DeviceNet network, add the
DeviceNet bridge to the I/O Configuration folder of the controller. RSNetWorx
for DeviceNet software is used to define the scanlist within the DeviceNet
scanner to communicate data between the devices and the controller through the
scanner.
Figure 14 - DeviceNet Distributed I/O Configuration
Device
Device Device
Scanner
Linking
Device
Device Device
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Device Device
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