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G1  Introduction to AC500  1-86  AC500 / Issued: 07.2006 
Symbolic names for I/Os 
In our example we use one digital input and one digital output. We want to label them with symbolic 
names. Proceed as follows: Click on the 
 symbol in front of "DC532" in order to display the I/O 
configuration: 
 
Now define a symbolic name for the digital input (digital input 0) as follows. First click on the 
 symbol in 
front of "Digital Inputs 0-15[FIX]": 
 
In the line of input 0, click twice on "AT". Then enter the symbolic name, e.g. I0dig. 
 
Complete your input by pressing the <Enter> key (displayed entry: I0dig AT %IX0.0 …). Now the 
program can access this input by its symbolic name. Using the same procedure, we then have to label 
the digital output with a symbolic name. Click on the 
 symbol in front of the entry "Digital In/Outputs - 
outputs 16-31 [FIX]".