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AS-Interface - Introduction
1.4AS-Interface specification2.1Functional description of the AS-Interface specification 2.1
•Number of nodes increased from 31 standard slaves to 62 A/B slaves,•enhanced diagnostic function with peripheral error bit,
•simple analogue value transmission with internal data handling,•extension of the ID codes of the nodes. Spec 2.1 62
62 nodes on AS-Interface network
•A standard slave occupies both A and B addresses and thus reduces the maximum number of nodes by one.•Standard slaves on a "new" VB... master/gateway are recognised using the identification code (ID code) and can still have 4 output data bits. Issue date 2004-11-19 - Catalogue AS-Interface 2004/2005 16
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