Operating hardware
4.3 IO routing
CP 1604 / CP 1616
Operating Instructions, 02/2017, C70000-G8976-C218-08
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What types of IO routing exist?
Read and write
From the perspective of the IO controller for the control level, there are three IO routing
tasks:
● Read process inputs
● Write process outputs
● Read process outputs
Inputs are always read module-oriented.
This means that the IO controller for the control level (and the IO controller for the process
level) can only ever read
bits of a module.
When writing process outputs, on the other hand, there are two possible ways of writing:
●
process outputs of a module are written by the IO controller for the control level
(module-oriented).
●
configured process output bits or bit areas are written by the IO controller for
the control level.
Outputs are always read module-oriented.
This means that the IO controller for the control level can only ever read
bits of a module.
How does the IO router work?
Requirements
A CP 1616 or CP 1604 communications processor is required in a PC station. Only these
CPs can be both IO controller and IO device at the same time.
The CP is first configured as an IO controller. Its
process controller user program
controls
the IO devices assigned to it on the Ethernet bus.