Glossary
B.1 General Section
Baud rate
Broadcast
A broadcast is like ”calling all stations”: Using one broadcast frame, you can reach all nodes that are prepared to accept broadcast frames.
Bus segment
Part of a
Client
A client is a device or, in general terms, an object that requests a service from a
Configuration data
Parameters that determine the modes and functions of a
CP
Communications Processor. Module for communications tasks.
CSMA/CD
CSMA/CD (Carrier Sense Multiple Access with Collision Detection); a transmis- sion technique.
Frame
A message from one PROFIBUS/Ethernet station/node to another.
Frame header
A frame header consists of an identifier for the
Frame trailer
A frame trailer consists of a checksum and the end identifier of the
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