5-4
Setting Up the Safety Process Data
Communications
5-4-1
Setting Up the FSoE Communications
When the Safety Control Unit is placed on the NX bus in the Sysmac Studio CPU rack configuration,
EtherCAT network configuration, and EtherCAT slave terminal configuration, the FSoE communica-
tions are set up automatically.
Use the following procedure to view or change the settings for the FSoE communications.
1 In the Multiview Explorer, select the target Safety CPU Unit in the Controller Selection Box.
2 Select Configurations and Setup – Communications – Safety, and then double-click Safety
I/O.
The meanings of the items in the Safety I/O Tab Page are given below.
Item Editing Description
Position Not
possible
• Node address
Fixed to NXBusMaster when connected to the CPU rack.
For a connection to an EtherCAT Coupler Unit, the node number of the Unit as an
EtherCA
T slave is displayed.
"EIP" is displayed for a connection to an EtherNet/IP Coupler Unit.
• Unit number
It displays the NX Unit number of the Safety I/O Unit.
Active (Ena-
ble/Disable)
Possi-
ble
The communications setting for FSoE communications is displayed.
Selected: Enabled
This setting assigns the Safety I/O Unit to the Safety CPU Unit as a communications
node, and displays the I/O ports for that Unit in the I/O Map.
Not selected: Disabled
This setting does not assign the Safety I/O Unit to the Safety CPU Unit as a communi-
cations node, and does not display the I/O ports for that Unit in the I/O Map.
Device Not
possible
This is the name of the Safety Control Unit.
Product In-
formation
Not
possible
This is the model and version of the Unit.
FSoE Slave
Address
Possi-
ble
When the Active setting described above is set to Enabled, the FSoE Slave Address
is automatically set as an internal address for use with FSoE communications.
Y
ou can change the FSoE slave address. The setting range is from 1 to 65,535.
Set a unique FSoE slave address for each FSoE slave in the FSoE communications.
If the same FSoE slave address is set more than once, an error is displayed on the
Sysmac Studio.
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