Introduction

Premium PLCs offer a decentralized input/output architecture solution with the Fipio bus. You can configure 127 devices.

Procedure

To access the Fipio field bus, perform the following actions:

Step

Action

1

From the project navigator, deploy the Configuration directory.

Result: the following screen appears

2

Select the Fipio sub-directory and select the Opencommand using the contextual menu.

Result: the Fipio window appears

Creating a Fipio bus

This operation is used to add, via the software, a device connected to the Fipio bus.

Step

Action

1

Access the Fipio configuration screen:

2

Right-click on the logical address of the connection point, at the location where the module has to be connected (available addresses from 1 to 62 and 64 to 127, addresses 0 and 63 being reserved by the system).

Result: the New Device screen appears.

3

Enter the number of the connection point corresponding to the address.

By default, the Control Expert software offers the first free consecutive address.

4

In the Reference field, enter the type of device to connect to the bus.

5

In the Communicator field, select the element type enabling communication on the Fipio bus.

For modules with built-in communicators, this window does not appear.

6

Confirm with Ok.

Result: the module is declared.

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