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P.3 Conventions & Terminology
The following conventions are used throughout this document:
• Numbered lists provide sequential steps
• Bulleted lists provide information, not procedural steps
• The term ‘user’ refers to the person or persons responsible for installing the Anybus Communi-
cator in a network.
• The term ‘ABC’ refers to the Anybus Communicator.
• Hexadecimal values are written in the format 0xNNNN, where NNNN is the hexadecimal value.
• Decimal values are represented as NNNN where NNNN is the decimal value
• As in all communication systems, the terms “input” and “output” can be ambiguous, because
their meaning depend on which end of the link is being referenced. The convention in this doc-
ument is that “input” and “output” are always being referenced to the master/scanner end of the
link.
P.3.1 Glossary
P.4 Sales and Support
For general contact information and support, please refer to the contact and support pages at
www.anybus.com
Term Meaning
ABC Anybus Communicator
ACM Anybus Configuration Manager
EIP EtherNet/IP
Broadcaster A protocol specific node in the sub-network scan that hold transactions destined to all nodes
Command A protocol specific transaction.
Configuration List of configured nodes with transactions on the sub-network
Fieldbus The network to which the communicator is connected.
Frame Higher level series of bytes forming a complete telegram on the sub-network
Monitor A tool for debugging the Anybus Communicator and the network connections
Node A device in the scan-list that defines the communication with a slave on the sub-network
Scan list List of configured slaves with transactions on the sub-network
sub-network
The network that logically is located on a subsidiary level with respect to the fieldbus and to
which the Anybus Communicator acts as a gateway
Transaction
A generic building block that is used in the sub-network scan-list and defines the data that is
sent out the sub-network
Fieldbus Control System Fieldbus master
Higher Level Network In this case, Ethernet (including EtherNet/IP and Modbus-TCP)
Network
Fieldbus