Siemens SINUMERIK 840Di sl Commissioning Manual page 230

PROFIBUS DP Communication
8.1 General information
2. Slaves (passive bus nodes)
Motion Control Option
Communication between SINUMERIK 840Di sl (NC and PLC), as the master, and the slave
components on PROFIBUS is based on PROFIBUS DP with the Motion Control Extension.
The MotionControl extension is characterized by:
● Configurable isochronous DP cycle
● Cyclic synchronization of the DP slaves using GlobalControl message frames from the
● Automatic maintenance of the internal clock by the DP slaves during a short
References:
/PPA/ PROFIDrive Profile Drive Technology Version 3, Draft V1.4.2, 1. September 2000
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– DP master, class 2 (DPMC2):
These are devices for configuration, commissioning, and operator control and
monitoring while the bus is in operation.
Examples: Programming units, operator control and visualization devices
These devices may only receive, acknowledge and transfer messages to a master when
so requested.
Examples: Drives, I/O modules
DP master
communication failure between the DP master and DP slave
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