How to Define a Slave Device on an AS-Interface Bus

At a Glance

Control Expert software offers a catalog of Schneider-Electric products that groups together all available AS-Interface slaves.

This catalog is currently structured according to the following families:

Safety products
Motor-starters
Advantys IP67 interface
IP20 compact interfaces
Illuminated indicator banks
Push button
Out of sale
Private family

Selecting Private family enables the user to enhance the Control Expert catalog with specific AS-Interface products via its programming terminal.

NOTE: A project using AS-Interface products from the Private Family catalog is always linked to the usage of the same Private Family catalog of the workstation where the catalog was created.

Declaration Procedure

The procedure below declares a slave device on the AS-Interface bus:

Step	Action
1	Access the AS-Interface module hardware configuration screen.
2	In the field AS-Interface V3 configuration either: Double click in the cell corresponding to the new slave host slot number (1A to 31A or 1B to 31B) Select this cell, then execute the command Edit → Add an AS-Interface slave Result: The screen Associate Profile appears.
3	In the field AS-Interface profile families select the required family. Result: The AS-i catalog associated with the selected family appears. Legend for column @: std: Standard address slave (for configuration in bank A A/B: Extended address slave (for configuration in banks A or B) Note: The following products or families have been removed since It is no longer possible to add the above products. But if an application uses them, these products appear on the configuration screen and operate normally: Signaling and control (code 7) Inductive proximity detector (code 11) Modular IP67 M12 interface (code 3) IP67 M12 interface (code 10) IP67 M8 interface (code 15) Keyboard (code 5) Photoelectric detector (code 9) XVA-S102 products of Indicating Beacons (code 6)
4	In the AS-i catalog select the required device.
5	Confirm the selection with OK. Result: The slave device is defined in its slot, the reference of the connected device appears opposite the number of the slave.
6	To connect other slave devices on the AS-Interface bus, repeat the procedure from step 2.

Configuration Rules

The configuration rules for the slaves are as follows:

The /B Slaves column only supports extended slaves and this on condition that the std /A Slaves cell immediately to its left is not occupied by a standard slave.
The std /A Slaves column supports extended slaves. This column also supports standard slaves, as long as the /B Slaves cell immediately to its right is not occupied by an extended slave.

A maximum of 62 extended or 31 standard address slaves can be configured.