eWON General Reference Guide - Esco Drives & Automation

General Reference GuideIO Servers ConfigurationSupported memory areas:XACCIODEHTWMemory areaAuxiliary areaCounter areaCore I/O areaData Memory areaExtended Data Memory areaHolding areaTimer AreaWork AreaTable 82: FINS IO server supported memory areas tableModifier:Symbol Modifier value rangeW Word 0 .. 65535S signed Word -32768 .. 32767D DWord 0 .. 4294967296 (*)L signed DWord -2147483648 .. 2147483647 (*)F Float +/- 3.4e38Table 83: FINS Modifiers(*) Important: See “Tags are stored as Float” on page 67examples:addressA5AS5point tothe Word at address 5 in the Auxiliary Area (equivalent to AW5)the Signed Word at address 5 in the Auxiliary AreaA2#5 the bit 5 from the Word at address 2 in the Auxiliary AreaE0:S3 the signed Word at address 3 from the Extended Data Memory 0Table 84: FINS address examples• Status register:The STATUS Tag is a special Tag that returns information about the current state of communication for a given device. As for the other Tags, thestatus Tag ValueName is composed of:Status, Global Device Address• You can define a status Tag for each PLC used.• If you use the status address, the Tag must be configured as analog.0Communication not initialized. Status UNKNOWN.If no Tag is polled on that device address, the communication status is unknown.1 Communication OK.2 Communication NOT OK.Table 85: Tag Status meaning5.7.3.2 Global Device AddressThe global device address is used in the topic definition or in the Tag definition. If it is used in the Tag definition, it will be separated from the valuename by a coma.RG-001-0-EN ver 1.5 eWON® - 20/03/2009 - ©ACT'L sa Page 109