ProSoft Technology MVI56E-MCM/MCMXT - Manual (Page 58)

Configuration as a Modbus Slave MVI56E-MCM ♦ ControlLogix Platform
User Manual Modbus Communication Module
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June 18, 2014
Because the module must wait for the ladder logic to confirm receiving the new data from the
Master, if the Master issues consecutive write commands, the module cannot process the second
write command until it has finished with the first command. This will cause the module to respond
with an error code of 6 (module busy) on the Modbus network.
3.2 ModDef Settings
To configure Modbus Slave mode, use the MCM.CONFIG.M OD D EF settings.
This section specifies which of the MVI56E- MCM module’s 10,000 registers of
memory to send from the ControlLogix processor to the MVI56E-MCM module
(WriteData) and which registers to send from the MVI56E-MCM module to the
ControlLogix processor (ReadData).
The W RITE S TART R EG determines the starting register location for W RITE D ATA [0
TO 599] and the W RITE R EG C NT determines how many of the 10,000 registers to
use for information to be written out to the module. The sample ladder file will
configure 600 registers for Write Data, labeled MCM.W
RITE D ATA [0 TO 599].
Value Description
WriteStartReg Determines where in the 10,000 register module memory to place the
data obtained from the ControlLogix processor from the WriteData
tags.
WriteRegCnt Sets how many registers of data the MVI56E-MCM module will
request from the ControlLogix processor. Because the module pages
data in blocks of 200 words, this number must be evenly divisible by
200.
ReadStartReg Determines where in the 10,000 register module memory to begin
obtaining data to present to the ControlLogix processor in the
ReadData tags.
ReadRegCnt Sets how many registers of data the MVI56E-MCM module will send
to the ControlLogix processor. This value should also be a multiple of
200.
BPFail Sets the consecutive number of backplane failures that will cause the
module to stop communications on the Modbus network.
ErrStatPtr This parameter places the STATUS data into the database of the
module. This information can be read be the Modbus Master to know
the status of the module.