Devicenet Explanation Of Terms - Burkert TOP Control on/off 8631 Manuel D'utilisation

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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 .
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