Description 
  1.1 System overview 
SIMOTION D4x5-2 
Commissioning and Hardware Installation Manual, 02/2012 
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The drive control supports servo control (for a highly dynamic response), vector control (for 
maximum torque accuracy) and 
V
/
f
 control.  
The SIMOTION D4x5-2 control units and their CX32-2, CBE30-2 and TB30 supplementary 
system components are described in the following. 
 
 
Note 
With the SIZER configuration tool, you can easily configure the SINAMICS S110/120 drive 
family including SIMOTION. 
It provides you with support for selecting and dimensioning the components required for a 
motion control task. 
You can also determine the possible number of axes and the resulting load with SIZER in 
accordance with your performance requirements. 
 
Hardware components 
As the central hardware, SIMOTION D uses the SIMOTION D4x5-2 as control unit consisting 
of the SIMOTION runtime system and the SINAMICS drive control. The control unit uses the 
SINAMICS Integrated drive with various SINAMICS S120 drive modules (line and motor 
modules) to perform open-loop and closed-loop control of the axis grouping. A range of 
additional SINAMICS S120 components, such as SMx encoder systems or terminal modules 
can also be connected via DRIVE-CLiQ. With a few exceptions (e.g. no basic positioner 
EPOS, no basic operator panel BOP20, etc.), the drive control integrated in SIMOTION D 
has the same control characteristics and performance features as the SINAMICS S120 
CU320-2 control unit. The EPOS functionality is provided by the SIMOTION technology 
functions. The functionality of SIMOTION D can be expanded with the distributed I/O via 
PROFIBUS or PROFINET IO.  
The following figure shows a typical SIMOTION D axis grouping.