Contents 
GFK-2224Q  January 2017  v 
 
  EGD Consumers ........................................................................................................................................................... 70 
5.2  EGD Exchanges ........................................................................................................................................... 71 
  Content of an Ethernet Global Data Exchange........................................................................................... 71 
  Data Ranges (Variables) in an Ethernet Global Data Exchange ........................................................ 71 
  Valid Memory Types for Ethernet Global Data ............................................................................................ 72 
  Planning Exchanges .................................................................................................................................................. 72 
  Using Ethernet Global Data in a Redundancy System ............................................................................ 73 
5.3  Sending an Ethernet Global Data Exchange to Multiple Consumers ............................................... 73 
  Multicasting Ethernet Global Data .................................................................................................................... 73 
  Broadcasting Ethernet Global Data .................................................................................................................. 74 
  Changing Group ID in Run Mode ........................................................................................................................ 74 
5.4  Ethernet Global Data Timing ................................................................................................................... 75 
  EGD Synchronization ................................................................................................................................................ 75 
  Configurable Producer Period for an EGD Exchange .............................................................................. 76 
  Consumer Update Timeout Period .................................................................................................................... 76 
5.5  Time-Stamping of Ethernet Global Data Exchanges ........................................................................... 77 
  Obtaining Timestamps from the Ethernet Interface Clock ................................................................... 78 
  Obtaining Timestamps from the CPU TOD Clock ....................................................................................... 79 
  SNTP Operation ............................................................................................................................................................ 86 
5.6  Effect of PLC Modes and Actions on EGD Operations ......................................................................... 88 
  Run Mode Store of EGD ........................................................................................................................................... 89 
5.7  Monitoring Ethernet Global Data Exchange Status ............................................................................ 92 
  Exchange Status Word Error Codes.................................................................................................................. 93 
Chapter 6  Programming EGD Commands ................................................................................................ 94 
6.1  General Use of EGD Commands .............................................................................................................. 94 
6.2  Using EGD Commands in a Redundancy System ................................................................................. 94 
6.3  COMMREQ Format for Programming EGD Commands ...................................................................... 94 
6.4  COMMREQ Status for the EGD Commands ........................................................................................... 95 
  COMMREQ Status Values ........................................................................................................................................ 95 
6.5  Read PLC Memory (4000) .......................................................................................................................... 96 
  Read PLC Memory Command Block ................................................................................................................. 96 
6.6  Write PLC Memory (4001) ......................................................................................................................... 99 
  Write PLC Memory Command Block................................................................................................................. 99 
6.7  Read EGD Exchange (4002) ..................................................................................................................... 101 
  Read EGD Exchange Command Block ..........................................................................................................101