Hardware manual

Communication profiles

Overview

This chapter describes the communication profiles used in the communication

between the PROFIBUS network, the FPBA-01 module, and the drive.

Communication profiles

Communication profiles are ways of transmitting control commands (Control word,

Status word, references and actual values) between the master station (PLC) and

the slave station (Drive).

With the FPBA-01 module, the PROFIBUS network may employ either the

PROFIdrive profile or the ABB Drives profile. Both are converted to the FBA profile

(see chapter Fieldbus control description) by the FPBA-01 module. In addition, two

Transparent modes – for 16-bit and 32-bit words are available. With the Transparent

modes, no data conversion takes place.