6.3 PowerlinkCnConnectionPointType

6.3.1 General

The PowerlinkCnConnectionPointType is a subtype of PowerlinkConnectionPointType and adds the POWERLINK Objects that are specific to the POWERLINK Controlled Node. It also provides the possibility to implement POWERLINK Device Profiles and customer specific POWERLINK Objects by adding components of the Type PowerlinkDeviceProfileType.

6.3.2 PowerlinkCnConnectionPointType Definition

The PowerlinkCnConnectionPointType is formally defined in Table 18.

6.3.3 Placeholder DeviceProfileIdentifier

The object DeviceProfileIdentifier of the type PowerlinkDeviceProfileType is a placeholder for the device- or vendor-specific part of the POWERLINK Object Dictionary.

The PowerlinkDeviceProfileType is formally defined in Table 19.

The Properties IndexRangeStart and IndexRangeSize indicate the range of POWERLINK Objects represented by the instance. The POWERLINK Objects shall be components of the Object ParameterSet, which is defined in the TopologyElementType by OPC 10000-100.

Table 20 shows the ranges that are available for objects defined by POWERLINK Device Profiles and manufacturer specific POWERLINK Objects.