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Configuringa PROFIBUS-DP-System
4.2 Configuration
Plug & Play
To simplify configuration of the PROFIBUS-DP system, the DP master (PLC) is configured
with the aid of the PROFIBUS-DP configurator and the GSD files, or with the hardware
configurator in the PLC.
Sequence of a configuration
Step Action
1 Creating a GSD file by means of the GSD generator
Loading the GSD files of the PROFIBUS-DP slaves into the PROFIBUS-DP network configuration
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software
3 Carry out configuration
4 Loading the configuration into the system (e. g. PLC)
Fig. 4: Sequence of a configuration
The GSD file
The individual device features of a DP slave are specified clearly and comprehensively in
a precisely defined format in the GSD file by the manufacturer.
The PROFIBUS-DP configurator / hardware configurator (PLC)
This software can read in the GSD files of PROFIBUS-DP devices of any manufacturer
and integrate them for bus system configuration.
As early as the project design phase, the PROFIBUS-DP configurator automatically
checks the entered files for system consistency errors.
The result of the configuration is read into the DP master (PLC).
4.3 The GSD generator
4.3.1 General information
The GSD generator allows the user to generate GSD files with a PROFIBUS- DP
interface. The devices available with a PROFIBUS-DP interface are able to transmit or
receive a wide variety of measurands (parameters). However, since in most applications
only some of these measurands are to be transmitted via PROFIBUS-DP, the GSD
generator is used to select these measurands.
Once the device is selected, all variables available appear in the 'Parameterization'
window. Only when these have been copied either to the 'Input' or 'Output' window, will
they later be contained in the GSD file for further processing or preprocessing by the DP
master (PLC).
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