5.2.2 PowerlinkArrayType
The VariableType PowerlinkArrayType is formally defined in Table 12 and represents POWERLINK Objects of the type ARRAY as defined in 5.2.
| Attribute | Value | ||||||
| BrowseName | PowerlinkArrayType | ||||||
| IsAbstract | False | ||||||
| ValueRank | 1 (1 = OneDimension) | ||||||
| DataType | BaseDataType | ||||||
| References | NodeClass | BrowseName | DataType | TypeDefinition |
Modelling
Rule | Access Level | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Subtype of BaseDataVariableType defined in OPC 10000-5. | |||||||
| HasProperty | Variable | PowerlinkAttributes | PowerlinkAttributes | PropertyType | Mandatory | Read | |
| HasProperty | Variable | Index | UInt16 | PropertyType | Mandatory | Read | |
| HasProperty | Variable | NumberOfEntries | Byte | PropertyType | Mandatory | Read / Write | |
| HasProperty | Variable | Range | Range | PropertyType | Optional | Read | |
| HasProperty | Variable | DefaultValue | BaseDataType | PropertyType | Optional | Read | |
The Property PowerlinkAttributes provides the information of the XML-Attribute ‘accessType’ from the POWERLINK XML Device Description.
The Property Index provides the Index of the object in the POWERLINK Object Dictionary.
The Property NumberOfEntries provides the value of Sub-Index 0 of the POWERLINK Object. For most POWERLINK Objects this value is read-only. For a few, like ERR_History_ADOM or PDO_RxMappParam_XXh_AU64, this Property is also writable.
The optional Property Range provides the Value Range of the array elements.
The optional Property DefaultValue provides the default value of the array elements. The DataType of this Property shall be identical to the DataType of the DataVariable itself.