PROFINET Cyclic Data

When importing the General Station Description (GSD) or General Station Description Markup Language (GSDML) file into your programming environment and inserting each avatar into the appropriate slots, the information is displayed with input and output bytes. The following tables define the input and output data for each avatar and define the meaning of each byte.

NOTE:

Cells or bytes highlighted in grey in the tables are only applicable to firmware versions where the Load Avatars Motor One Direction, Motor Two Direction, etc. have local control modes and PV inputs enabled.
For firmware versions where the avatars do not have the local control modes and PV inputs features, ignore the cells highlighted in grey.
If you have doubt, the programming tool will specify how many bytes are expected for each avatar.
If your avatar expects 6 bytes but the tables below show 17 bytes, ignore bytes 7-17 since they are applicable only to a future firmware version.
Devices (slots 101 and above) do not allow cyclic data and do not have datasets. Their data is accessed via Acyclic data only.
In PROFIBUS communication,16 units is the maximum size you can define in the Configuration Data Unit. For the larger datasets, word alignments must be used. For PROFIBUS only, a padding byte must be added to any datasets with an odd number of bytes.