Servo control 
  4.20 Central probe evaluation 
Drive functions 
Function Manual, 11/2017, 6SL3097-4AB00-0BP5 
183 
Common features for central measuring with and without handshake 
Both measuring procedures have the following points in common:  
●  Setting the input terminal in p0680. 
●  Signal source, synchronization signal in p0681. 
●  Signal source, control word probe p0682. 
●  Transfer with the communication interface PROFIdrive. 
●  Synchronizing and monitoring isochronous PROFIdrive 
●  Prerequisite for measurements is the synchronization between the control and drive. 
●  Setpoint transfer at start time To and actual value transfer at instant in time Ti in the 
PROFIBUS cycle (max. 8 ms). 
●  Time stamp: Format (drive increments, NC decrements) 
●  Each valid time stamp in the drive is incremented by 1 in order to make a differentiation 
between a valid measuring time zero and an invalid time format. This increment is 
removed again by the higher-level control. 
●  The value "0" in the interface is an invalid time format and indicates that a measured 
value is not available. 
●  Sequencer for the control/status word processing 
●  Monitoring functions (sign of life) 
●  Faults 
 
Note 
Time-critical data transfer  
The status information E_DIGITAL and A_DIGITAL in telegrams 39x are not subject to any 
precise time restraints according to the specifications. The transfer of E_DIGITAL and the 
output of A_DIGITAL are realized independently of the PROFIBUS cycle wi
th the 
PROFIdrive PZD sampling time according to p2048. Depending on the module, this can be 
set to between 1 ms and 16 ms. As a consequence, dead times must be expected for the 
transfer of output values and the feedback signal of input values.
 
e probe status word MT_ZSW is identical with the content of E_DIGITAL, it is 
however directly transferred in PZDs. As a consequence, for time
-critical applications 
measuring probes or cams should be used.