IBA Com-L2B-4-8 - 2 Product Properties

ibaCom-L2B-x-8 Manual
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2 Product properties
The ibaCom-L2B-x-8 cards are communication cards which are used to connect stan-
dard PC PROFIBUS master devices such as Simatic CPUs and CPs. The ibaCom-
L2B-x-8 boards are the successors of the L2B x-8-F PROFIBUS boards.
As far as this description does not refer explicitly to an ibaCom-L2B-4-8 or ibaCom-
L2B-8-8, the two boards are referred to as ibaL2B boards or cards.
The ibaL2B card is, unlike most iba communication interfaces, a copper based inter-
face which holds 4 or 8 so called Profibus DP slaves. The L2B features the following
functionality.
 Compliant PCI V2.2 (5 V) board, needs one PCI-slot, Plug & Play functionality
 1 Mbyte of PCI dual port ram for PC access
 Standard PROFIBUS DP slave processors (SPC3)
 No configuration jumpers or switches – fully software controlled
 Firmware control in the PC without uninstalling the card
 Dynamic reassigning of interrupt sources and interrupt generation (board and driver
synchronization)
 Up to 4 ibaL2B boards can run in the same PC at the same time (board ids #0..#3)
 4 DP slaves on one PROFIBUS line (ibaL2B-4-8) or 2x4 DP slaves on 2 PROFI-
BUS DP lines (ibaL2B-8-8-PCI)
 Each PROFIBUS-link has its own processor which controls and manages the four
slave-processors.
 ibaL2B supports DP multi master mode that means, that on one PROFIBUS line
several masters can be present each controlling their corresponding slaves (one
master for one slave only !)
 For each slave (each slave represents an iba module which consists of 32 analog
plus 32 binary signals) the following telegram modes can be chosen:
 Integer
 Real
 S7-Real (Note in this mode there are only 28 Real values instead of the 32 nor-
mally found)
 QDA-Flatness (special mode for connection to Siemens flatness measurement
systems).
 S7-Request