
B-64164EN/01 TABLE OF CONTENTS
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
SAFETY PRECAUTIONS............................................................................s-1
I. GENERAL
1 GENERAL ............................................................................................... 3
1.1 ORGANIZATION OF THIS MANUAL ............................................................ 4
1.2 APPLICABLE MODELS................................................................................. 5
1.3 RELATED MANUALS.................................................................................... 5
2 OVERVIEW OF FL-net FUNCTIONS...................................................... 6
2.1 WHAT IS THE FL-net .................................................................................... 7
2.2 FANUC FL-net FUNCTIONS ....................................................................... 10
II. SPECIFICATION
1 PARAMETERS FOR FL-net FUNCTION.............................................. 15
2 CYCLIC TRANSMISSION ..................................................................... 19
2.1 COMMON MEMORY AREA 1 CYCLIC TRANSMISSION........................... 20
2.2 COMMON MEMORY AREA 2 CYCLIC TRANSMISSION........................... 21
2.2.1 Simultaneous DI and DO Area Allocation.............................................................22
2.2.2 Separate Allocation of DI and DO Areas ...............................................................23
2.2.2.1 DO data allocation ............................................................................................. 23
2.2.2.2 DI data allocation............................................................................................... 26
2.2.2.3 Nodes information ............................................................................................. 32
2.2.2.4 Timing of switching between conditions on data exchange with common
memory area 2 ................................................................................................... 33
2.3 NODE STATE MONITORING...................................................................... 34
2.3.1 Allocation of Local Node State ..............................................................................34
2.3.2 Allocation of a List of Participating Nodes............................................................38
2.4 BYTE LIST OF CYCLIC DATA .................................................................... 39
3 MESSAGE TRANSMISSION ................................................................ 40
3.1 LIST OF MESSAGE TRANSMISSION SERVICES ..................................... 41
3.2 OVERVIEW OF THE MESSAGE TRANSMISSION FUNCTION ................. 42
3.3 PROCEDURE FOR MESSAGE TRANSMISSION OPERATION ................ 48
3.3.1 Procedure for Message Transmission Operation....................................................48
3.3.2 Procedure for operating the transparent message transmission..............................49
3.4 MESSAGE TRANSMISSION CLIENT FUNCTION...................................... 50