How to Configure RevPi Gate for POWERLINK

Setting the Station Address

You can set a station address for the gateway component using the two rotary switches. The station number can be assigned in the range of 01-239.

The station address is set as a hexadecimal.

Example: Setting the station number 18.

Set switch x16 (1) to position “2”.

Set switch x1 (2) to position “1”.

The settings yield the hexadecimal value 0x12 and the decimal value 18.

POWERLINK Configuration

To configure the gateway component, you have to make the appropriate settings in the standard objects with the configuration software of your POWERLINK master.

You can structure process data exchanged between the gateways in an application-specific way for POWERLINK using the process data object (PDO). For this purpose, POWERLINK uses mapping objects addressed via index and subindex

The process data is divided into input process data (RPDO) and output process data (TPDO). The size of the process data varies according to the cycle time used:

Cycle time PDO(RPDO + TPDO)
Minimum cycle time 200 µs 12 Byte PDO
400 µs 100 Byte PDO
700 µs RPDO 200 Byte + TPDO200 Byte
Maximum cycle time 60 ms RPDO 200 Byte + TPDO200 Byte

The gateway component supports the objects listed below. They comply with the specification DS302 (Version 4.02) of the CiA.

You can access the data byte-by-byte.

Fieldbus Output Data (Master Direction)

Index Object name Sub- Index Description Data type Access
2000h IN_I2000_S01 00h Number of Entries U8 Read Only
IN_I2000_S02 01h In Byte #0
IN_I2000_S80

 

80h In Byte #127
2001h IN_I2001_S01 00h Number of Entries U8 Read Only
IN_I2001_S02 01h In Byte #128
IN_I2001_S80 80h In Byte #255

Fieldbus input data (from the master)

Index Object name Sub- Index Description Data type Access
2100h OUT_I2100_S01 00h Number of Entries U8 Read Only
OUT_I2100_S02 01h In Byte #0 U8 Read/Write
OUT_I2100_S80 80h In Byte #127
2101h OUT_I2101_S01 00h Number of Entries U8 Read Only
OUT_I2101_S02 01h In Byte #128 U8 Read/Write
OUT_I2101_S80 80h In Byte #255