B&B Electronics GW-7552 - Manual - Manual (Page 4)

GW-7552 PROFIBUS/MODBUS GATEWAY User Manual (Version 1.40, Apr/2012) PAGE: 4
1. Introduction
Profibus and Modbus are two kinds of famous protocols and are wildly used in the
fields of factory and process automation. The GW-7552 is a Profibus to Modbus
gateway. By using this module, users can easily put the Modbus devices into Profibus
network.
Figure 1 shows an application example for the GW-7552 module.
Figure 1 Application architecture of the GW-7552 module
The GW-7552 Gateway is specially designed for the slave device of PROFIBUS DP
protocol. In the Modbus protocol application, the GW-7552 can be a Modbus master
device or slave device. The Modbus devices can exchange data with the Profibus
master device via the GW-7552 module.
The main features and specification of GW-7552 are described as below: