FieldServer FS-RA-CLX-BAS instruction manual Driver Specific Map Descriptor Parameters

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6.6.Server Side Map Descriptors

6.6.1.SlotServer Specific Map Descriptor Parameters

Column Title

 

Function

 

Legal Values

Map_Descriptor_Name

Name

of

this

Map

Up to 32 alphanumeric

Descriptor

 

 

characters

 

 

 

Scan_Interval

Rate at which IO image

Use twice the rate used in

data is updated

 

RSLogix e.g. 0.2s

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

WRBC - to write into Input

Function

Function

of

Server

Map

Image Data buffer

Descriptor

 

 

 

 

 

 

RDBC - to read from Output

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Image Data buffer

6.6.2.

Driver Specific Map Descriptor Parameters

 

 

 

 

 

 

Column Title

Function

Legal Values

 

Node_Name

 

Name of Node to fetch data

One of the node names

 

 

from

specified in

“Client Node

 

 

 

Descriptor” above

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Use same as used in

 

 

 

 

RSLogix to add the module

 

IO_Data_Type

 

Data type of IO image

INT

(16-bit integer)

 

 

SINT

(8-bit signed)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

DINT

(32-bit double)

 

 

 

 

REAL

(32-bit float)

 

 

 

 

One of the Data Array

 

 

 

 

names from

“Data Array”

 

DA_Name_Start2

Name of Data Array to

section above. Data Arrays

 

 

 

include in IO image data

must be named as follows:

 

 

 

 

DaName_x

where x is a

 

 

 

 

value e.g. DaName_1

 

DA_Count

 

Number of Data Arrays to

1-200

 

 

 

 

include in IO image data

 

 

 

 

 

Custom Value transferred in

0 - value

permitted by

 

Protocol_Type_ID

IO image to indicate

IO_Data_Type3

 

 

 

protocol of IO image data

e.g. 0 - 65535 for INT

2Refer to Appendix A.6 for information specific to naming Logics driver Data Arrays.

3The update rate decreases as the number of blocks go up. For 25 blocks we have an update rate of 25*RPI = 25*0.1 = 2.5 seconds.

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FieldServer FS-RA-CLX-BAS instruction manual Driver Specific Map Descriptor Parameters

FS-RA-CLX-BAS specifications

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