Communication profiles
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The ABB Drives communication profile
The Control Word and the Status Word
The Control Word is the principal means for controlling the drive 
from a fieldbus system. It is sent by the fieldbus client station to 
the drive through the adapter module. The drive switches between 
its states according to the bit-coded instructions on the Control 
Word and returns status information to the client in the Status 
Word.
The contents of the Control Word and the Status Word are 
detailed in Tables 4 and 5 respectively. The drive states are 
presented in the ABB Drives Profile state machine (Figure 1.).
References
References are 16-bit words containing a sign bit and a 15-bit 
integer. A negative reference (indicating reversed direction of 
rotation) is formed by calculating the two’s complement from the 
corresponding positive reference.
ABB drives can receive control information from multiple sources 
including analogue and digital inputs, the drive control panel and a 
communication module (eg, FENA-01). In order to have the drive 
controlled through the fieldbus, the module must be defined as the 
source for control information, eg, Reference.