Support of new fieldbus modules

Function extension
The following fieldbus modules are supported:

• PROFIBUS (from V02.00)
• EtherCat (from V04.00)
• PROFINET (from V05.01)
• Interbus (from V05.01)

Included in which products/versions?
8400 StateLine / HighLine

Applications
Fieldbus modules generally serve to integrate the 8400 in a fieldbus network.
Apart from the actual PROFINET communication, the PROFINET module has an additional internal TCP/IP channel. That way the 8400 can be diagnosed with the Engineer via a standard Ethernet network. The only drawback is that the FB monitoring is not working yet.


Information taken from chapter 2.1.1 of Service Message No. 16/2010.