System Overview - ABB ACS880 Firmware Manual

274 Fieldbus control through a fieldbus adapter

System overview

The drive can be connected to an external control system through a serial
communication link using a fieldbus adapter. The fieldbus adapter can be installed
into any free drive slot.
Drive
Parameter R/W requests/responses
The drive can be set to receive all of its control information through the fieldbus
interface, or the control can be distributed between the fieldbus interface and other
available sources such as digital and analog inputs.
Fieldbus adapters are available for various serial communication systems and
protocols, for example
• PROFIBUS DP (FPBA-01 adapter)
• CANopen (FCAN-01 adapter)
• DeviceNet (FDNA-01 adapter)
• EtherNet/IP TM (FENA-11 adapter)
• EtherCAT (FECA-01 adapter).
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Type Fxxx fieldbus
adapter installed on
drive
Data Flow
Control word (CW)
References
Status word (SW)
Actual values
Fieldbus
controller
Other
devices
Process I/O (cyclic)
Process I/O (cyclic) or
Service messages (acyclic)
Fieldbus