AH500 Hardware and Operation Manual 
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  The rules of data exchange are described below. 
Master 
Slave station  Communication 
Master station <=> Slave station 
AH500 
series CPU 
module 
AH500 series CPU 
module 
AH500 Modbus 
communication 
M, D, and L
*1
  M, D, and L
*1
 
Standard Modbus 
communication 
M
*2
  M
*2
 
D  D 
DVP series PLC 
Standard Modbus 
communication 
M
*2
  M
*2
 
D  D 
Device which is 
neither an AH500 
series CPU 
module nor a DVP 
Standard Modbus 
communication 
protocol 
M
*2
  H (contact)
*2
 
D  H (register) 
DVP series 
PLC 
AH500 series CPU 
module 
Standard Modbus 
communication 
D  D 
DVP series PLC 
communication 
D  D 
Device which is 
neither an AH500 
series CPU 
module nor a DVP 
Standard Modbus 
communication 
protocol 
D  H (register) 
*1. If the AH500 Modbus communication protocol is used, users can use relays, data registers, and link 
registers. 
*2. If the standard Modbus communication protocol is used, devices which are not data registers can not 
be involved in synchronous data exchange.