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Rio addressing – Rockwell Automation GMLC Reference Manual User Manual

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Publication GMLC-5.2 - November 1999

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RIO Addressing

To the PLC, the motion controller appears as

1

/

4

,

1

/

2

,

3

/

4

, or a full remote

rack on the RIO link depending on the setting of the Rack Size parameter
in the RIO page of the Configure Control Options dialog box, as
explained below.

In the figure above, the numbers 0 – 99 correspond to the RIO Input and
Output address defined in GML Commander. As implied in the figure
above and shown in the following table, the selected rack size determines
the total number of user-defined discrete I/O.

Remote I/O Adapter
Number of User-Defined Discrete I/O Bits

Rack Width

Inputs

Outputs

¼

4

4

½

36

36