
Overview of the DP Base Interface
DP Base Programming Interface for CP 5613/CP 5614
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3.3 Consistent Access to the process image
Conflicts Accessing the Process Image
If, for example, your user program is currently reading the data of the DP slave
from the process image and at exactly the same time the DP master overwrites this
data with new data, your program could read the first few bytes from the previous
DP cycle and the remaining bytes from the current cycle. The data would then be
corrupted and inconsistent.
The Read Consistency Option
On the CP 5613 and CP 5614, you can decide whether or not you want to read the
data of the process image of the input data or diagnostic data consistently. In some
situations, for example, when the data is only 2 bytes long, you do not need to
select consistency since inconsistency can only occur when the data is longer.
Consistency can be guaranteed up to a maximum data length of 244 bytes.
Writing Data is always Consistent
On the CP 5613 and CP 5614, output data are always written consistently due to
the transfer mechanism on the CP 5613/CP 5614 up to the maximum data length
of 244 bytes.
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