The qualifiers in RIOforFA Channels are single bits transferred together in one or more bytes (see [RIO FA] sec. 7.2). Therefore, the Telegram contains an arbitrary number of qualifier bits distributed among several continuous bytes.
Figure 15 shows the analog Output Channel model and a Channel Group according to RIOforFA. The qualifiers of the Output Process Values are transferred as single bits packed into one byte in the Input section of the process image.
Figure 16 shows the References from Signal Objects in the PROFINET aspect to their counterparts in the RIO aspect for analog RIO Output Channels according to RIOforFA. The qualifier Signal Object is connected to a RioBitFieldVariableType Variable containing a bit field. The bit field and the RIO Channel Objects are related using RIO Channel Group Objects.
The Output Signal Objects “01_AO_1_Value” and “02_AO_2_Value” are connected to the Process Value Variables with 0:RepresentsSameEntityAs References in the same way as described before.
The qualifiers of RIO Output Channels according to RIOforFA are transmitted separated from the values in an Input Signal since qualifiers of RIOforFA Output Channels are provided by the Channel and are part of the Input section of the process image. Therefore, the qualifier Signal Object “03_AO_1-AO_2_Q” containing the status information for both Output Channels is a component of the Input Signal Variable and relates to the “OutputImageQualifiers” Variable in the functional aspect of the Information Model using a 0:RepresentsSameEntityAs Reference.
The “SM1” PROFINET submodule Object connects to the RioFaAnalogChannelGroupType Object using a 0:RepresentsSameFunctionalityAs Reference. Since the RIO Channel Group types allow aggregating of Input and Output but are separated into different types for digital and analog IO, hybrid digital/analog submodules may reference a digital Channel Group type object and an analog Channel Group type object with 0:RepresentsSameFunctionalityAs References.
For analog RIOforFA Input Channels, the RIO Channel Group modelling is done in the same way as shown in Figure 16, but all Signal Objects are components of the Input Signal Variable.
Figure 16 – 2 analog RIOforFA Output Channels
The mapping of the bit number inside the RioBitFieldVariableType Variable to the RIO Channel the status bit belongs to is done in the following way: The Value of the RioChannelNumber Property of each Channel Object corresponds to the bit number of the status bit inside the bit field.
The Server may optionally provide additional RioFaProcessValueQualifierVariableType Variables as components of the Process Value Variables to make the status information directly accessible for Clients without decoding the value structure of the Process Value Variable.
Figure 17 – RIOforFA Digital Input Channel Model
Digital RIO Channels according to RIOforFA transmit the Process Values as single bits packed together into one or more bytes. One Telegram contains an arbitrary number of value bits which belong to separate RIO Channels distributed among continuous bytes, as shown in Figure 17.
Figure 18 shows the modelling of a digital RIOforFA Input Channel Group. The RIO Channel Group Object aggregates the value and status information for 32 digital RIOforFA Input Channels. The RioBitFieldVariableType Variable “ InputImage” is a bit field representing the digital values of 32 Process Values. The “InputImageQualifier” Variable of the same type contains the status bits.
The optional “InputChannel” Objects may contain single RioFaDigitalInputChannelType Objects providing detailed information for each aggregated RIO Channel. The “01_DI_1-DI_32_Value” Object is connected to a RioBitFieldVariableType Variable containing a bit field which represents the digital values for more than one RIO Channel. The qualifier Signal Object is also connected with a bit field Variable containing the status bits.
Figure 18 – RIO FA Digital Input Channel Group
Figure 19 shows the modelling of a digital RIOforFA Output Channel Group. The “OutputImageQualifier” bit field Variable is connected to the qualifier Signal Object which is a component of the Input Telegram.
Figure 19 – RIO FA Digital Output Channel Group
Figure 20 shows an analog RIO Channel Group aggregating two RioPaAnalogInputChannelType Objects. The “InputValues” Variable containing an array of RioPaAnalogValueDataType structures is connected to the “Input” Telegram Variable in the PROFINET aspect using a 0:RepresentsSameEntityAs Reference.
Figure 20 – RIOforPA Analog Input Channel Group
Figure 21 shows a digital RIO Channel Group aggregating two RioPaDigitalOutputChannelType Objects. The “OutputImage” Variable containing an array of RioPaDigitalValueDataType structures is connected with the “Output” Telegram Variable in the PROFINET aspect using a 0:RepresentsSameEntityAs Reference.
Figure 21 – RIOforPA Digital Output Channel Group