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Rockwell Automation DAG6.5.8 APPLICATION GUIDE SCADA SYSTEM User Manual

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Publication AG-UM008C-EN-P - February 2005

1-10 Designing Communication

Figure 1.3 How a Master Station Requests Data

To design a communication scheme using standard-communication
mode, you must do the following:

design a polling scheme

plan for timing issues

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Ladder logic
triggers MSG

Master driver
formats command
packet

Master data table

ACK timeout received and
tries > ‘DF1 message
retries’ return error
indication

Send command
packet

Start ACK timer

Wait for ACK (or
timeout)

Start reply timer

Resume polling

Wait for reply (or
timeout)

reply packet
received return
data

reply timeout received
return error
indication

ACK received

ACK timeout received
and station active and
tries < or = ‘DF1 message
retries’