PROFINET IO – Communication profiles 305
PROFINET IO –
Communication profiles
Contents of this chapter
This chapter describes the communication profiles used in the
communication between the PROFINET IO master, the adapter
module and the drive.
Communication profiles
Communication profiles are ways of conveying control commands
(Control word, Status word, references and actual values) between
the master station and the drive.
With the FENA adapter module, the PROFINET network may
employ either the PROFIdrive profile or the ABB Drives profile.
Both are converted to the native profile (eg, DCU or FBA) by the
adapter module. In addition, two Transparent modes – for 16-bit
and 32-bit words respectively – are available. With the Transparent
modes, no data conversion takes place.