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General Reference Guide IO Servers Configuration
RG-001-0-EN ver 1.5 eWON® - 20/03/2009 - ©ACT'L sa Page 109
Supported memory areas:
Modifier:
(*) Important: See “Tags are stored as Float” on page 67
examples:
• Status register:
The STATUS Tag is a special Tag that returns information about the current state of communication for a given device. As for the other Tags, the
status Tag ValueName is composed of:
Status, Global Device Address
• You can define a status Tag for each PLC used.
• If you use the status address, the Tag must be configured as analog.
5.7.3.2 Global Device Address
The global device address is used in the topic definition or in the Tag definition. If it is used in the Tag definition, it will be separated from the value
name by a coma.
X Memory area
A Auxiliary area
C Counter area
CIO Core I/O area
D Data Memory area
E Extended Data Memory area
H Holding area
T Timer Area
W Work Area
Table 82: FINS IO server supported memory areas table
Symbol Modifier value range
W Word 0 .. 65535
S signed Word -32768 .. 32767
D DWord 0 .. 4294967296 (*)
L signed DWord -2147483648 .. 2147483647 (*)
F Float +/- 3.4e38
Table 83: FINS Modifiers
address point to
A5 the Word at address 5 in the Auxiliary Area (equivalent to AW5)
AS5 the Signed Word at address 5 in the Auxiliary Area
A2#5 the bit 5 from the Word at address 2 in the Auxiliary Area
E0:S3 the signed Word at address 3 from the Extended Data Memory 0
Table 84: FINS address examples
0
Communication not initialized. Status UNKNOWN.
If no Tag is polled on that device address, the communication status is unknown.
1 Communication OK.
2 Communication NOT OK.
Table 85: Tag Status meaning