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Explanation of terms, English, Devicenet – Burkert Type 8631 User Manual

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Explanation of terms

DeviceNet

• DeviceNet is a field bus system based on the CAN (Controller Area Network) protocol. It enables

networking of actuators and sensors (slaves) with higher-level control systems (masters).

• In DeviceNet TOP Control on/off is a slave device according to the Predefined Master/Slave

Connection Set specified in the DeviceNet specification. The following I/O connection variants are
supported: Polled I/O, Bit Strobed I/O and Change of State (COS).

• With DeviceNet one distinguishes between cyclic or event-driven transmitted process messages of

high priority (I/O messages) and acyclic management messages of low priority (Explicit Messages).

• The protocol sequence corresponds to DeviceNet

Specification Release 2.0.