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Assembly and Commissioning Instructions Servo amplifier D1-N
Figure 10.1: Example of PC control via Ethernet EtherCAT or USB port
PDL (Process Description Language) programming
The D1-N servo drive amplifier has its own PLC functionality and can be used via
the proprietary PDL programming language.
A detailed description of this programming and how to use it can be found in a sep-
arate document called
and can be downloaded from www.hiwin.de. Alter-
natively, contact the technical support team at HIWIN (see section 2.9).
Position orders can be undertaken, operating changeovers (e.g. position control,
speed control or current control) can be performed, and outputs can be controlled
via the digital inputs.
Features of PDL programming
- Capable of multitasking, up to 4 tasks can be processed in parallel
- Quick execution of individual sentences (62.5 µs)
- Definition of user variables (name, type, size)
- Support for arrays and pointers
- Procedures with parameters
- Use of Loop, While, If, Else, Till, Goto commands
- Mathematics functions
- Blocking and unblocking of commands