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2 System overview
2.1 General/area of application
The "PN/CAN Gateway, PROFINET/CANopen Slave" enables the coupling of machines with CANopen
bus to machines with PROFINET network. The PN/CAN Gateway represents a freely configurable,
fully-fledged CANopen device on the CAN bus and extended the PLC – system / machine to a
CANopen device.
On the PROFINET network, the PN/CAN Gateway is a PROFINET I/O device. The data of the CANopen
SDOs are transparently and freely configurable inserted into the PROFINET network and can thus be
read or written directly in the PLC.
The PN/CAN Gateway is integrated into the hardware configurator of the PROFINET controller with a
GSDML file, and all values of the PN/CAN-Gateways are available as IO information. Special handling
blocks are not necessary. An EDS or DCF file is used to permanently load a manufacturer-specific
CANopen device configuration into the device.
2.2 Properties of PN/CAN-Gateways CANopen
The PN/CAN Gateway, PROFINET/CANopen Master has the following properties:
• PROFINET IO device as defined in IEC 61158-6-10
• Integrated two-port Ethernet switch
• Full-duplex transmission rate of 100 Mbps
• PROFINET Conformance Class C
• Media redundancy (MRP client)
• CANopen device as of CANopen protocol DSP 301
• Up to 1 Mbps CAN bit rate
• Up to 16 TPDOs / 16 RPDOs
• Up to 1440 bytes input and 1440 bytes output data on PROFINET
• Supports NMT, Heartbeat, node guarding, Sync and emergency messages
• Configuration using GSDML file
• No handling blocks necessary
• 24 V DC power supply
• 3 LEDs, bi-color
• USB device interface to load the configuration and for online diagnosis and firmware update