Summary of Communication Solutions
(Original Document)
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At a Glance
The services presented earlier in this chapter are available for certain types of communication.
For example, for messaging services, certain communication functions apply to networks, others to buses and others to serial links in character mode.
Summary
The following table gives an overview of the different services available according to the types of communication:
Function
Fipway
Fipio
Uni-Telway
Character mode
Modbus/Jbus
Modbus Plus
Ethway
TCP/IP
CANopen
USB
Messaging services
Communi-cation functions
The communication functions that can be used depend closely on the type of communication for which they are applied.
Implicit database access services
Global Data
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
X
-
-
Common words
X
-
-
-
-
-
X
-
-
-
Shared tables
X
-
-
-
-
-
X
-
-
-
Periodic data exchanges
-
X
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
Implicit I/O management services
I/O Scanning
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
X
-
-
Peer cop
-
-
-
-
-
X
-
-
-
-
Other
-
X
-
-
-
X
-
-
X
-
Legend:
X
Yes
-
No