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Cip sync – Rockwell Automation Ethernet Design Considerations Reference Manual User Manual

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Rockwell Automation Publication ENET-RM002C-EN-P - May 2013

Chapter 4

EtherNet/IP Protocol

CIP Sync

CIP Sync defines time synchronization services for CIP. Time synchronization
on the EtherNet/IP network is a method to synchronize clocks across devices on
the network. In a synchronized application, there is a single time master and
multiple time slaves. For example, a ControlLogix controller can be configured to
act as the time master and other ControlLogix modules, connected via
EtherNet/IP communication modules, serve as the time slaves.

You can synchronize the clocks within the following applications:

Multiple ControlLogix controllers

ControlLogix redundancy systems

Real world clocks

Personal computer-based events

Time Master

Time Slave

Time Slave

Time Slave