Allen-Bradley Logix5000 Series Owner's manual

Logix5000 Controllers I/O and Tag Data

Catalog Numbers

1756 ControlLogix, 1756 GuardLogix,

1768 Compact GuardLogix, 1769 CompactLogix, 1789 SoftLogix,

PowerFlex with DriveLogix

Programming Manual

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Summary of Changes

Introduction

The release of this document contains new information.

New Information

New information is marked by change bars in the side column, as shown to

the right.

Section Changes

Chapter 1 New information and examples for electronic keying.

Chapter 4 Procedures and descriptions for the external access and

constant tag attributes that control access to

controller tags.

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Table of Contents

Preface

Purpose of This Manual. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Chapter 1

Communicate with I/O Modules

Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Requested Packet Interval . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Communication Format. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Direct or Rack-Optimized Connection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Ownership . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

Electronic Keying. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

Address I/O Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

Buffer I/O . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Chapter 2

Organize Tags

Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

Tag Type. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

Data Type. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

Scope . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

Guidelines for Tags . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

Create a Tag . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

Create an Array. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

Configure an Array . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

Create a User-defined Data Type . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

Guidelines for User-defined Data Types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

Create a User-defined Data Type . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

Describe a User-defined Data Type . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

Activate Pass-Through and Append Descriptions. . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

Paste a Pass-Through Description . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

Address Tag Data. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

Alias Tags . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

Display Alias Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

Assign an Alias . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48

Assign an Indirect Address . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

Expressions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

Array Subscript Out of Range. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52

Tag Documentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

Language Switching . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

Chapter 3

Force I/O

Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

Precautions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

Enable Forces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

Disable or Remove a Force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

Check Force Status. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

FORCE Status Indicator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

GSV Instruction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

When to Use I/O Force . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

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Force an Input Value . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60

Force an Output Value . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60

Add an I/O Force . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60

Remove or Disable Forces. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

Remove an Individual Force . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62

Disable All I/O Forces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62

Remove All I/O Forces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62

Chapter 4

Data Access Control

Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63

External Access . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63

Configure External Access. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64

External Access Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64

Configure External Access in the New Tag Dialog Box . . . . . . . . 66

Set Up External Access in the Tag Properties Dialog Box . . . . . . 68

View and Select External Access Status

on the Tag Editor Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69

‘Go To’ Search Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70

External Access Availability. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

User-defined Type Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73

Add-On Instructions External Access Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . 74

Tag Mapping Considerations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78

Imported Tag Behavior . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78

Constant Value Tags . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79

Configure Constant Tags . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80

Set Up a Constant in the New Tag Dialog Box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80

Configure a Constant in the Tag Properties Dialog Box . . . . . . . . 81

Designate a Constant in the Tag Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82

Constant Checkbox Availability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84

Add-On Instructions Constant Value Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85

Index

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Preface

Purpose of This Manual

This manual shows how to access I/O and tag data in Logix5000 controllers.

This manual is one of a set of related manuals that show common procedures

for programming and operating Logix5000 controllers.

For a complete list of common procedures manuals, refer to the

Logix 5000 Controllers Common Procedures Programming Manual,

publication 1756-PM001.

The term Logix5000 controller refers to any controller that is based on the

Logix5000 operating system, such as:

•CompactLogix controllers.

•ControlLogix controllers.

•DriveLogix controllers.

•FlexLogix controllers.

•SoftLogix5800 controllers.

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Chapter

Communicate with I/O Modules

Introduction

To communicate with an I/O module in your system, you add the module to

the I/O Configuration folder of the controller.

When you add the module, you also define a specific configuration for the

module. While the configuration options vary from module to module, these

are some common options that you typically configure:

•Requested Packet Interval

•Communication Format

•Electronic Keying

Add I/O modules here.

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Chapter 1 Communicate with I/O Modules

Requested Packet Interval

The Logix5000 controller uses connections to transmit I/O data.

In Logix5000 controllers, I/O values update at a period that you configure via

the I/O configuration folder of the project. The values update asynchronous

to the execution of logic. At the specified interval, the controller updates a

value independently from the execution of logic.

•Programs within a task access input and output data directly from

controller-scoped memory.

•Logic within any task can modify controller-scoped data.

•Data and I/O values are asynchronous and can change during the

course of a task’s execution.

•An input value referenced at the beginning of a task’s execution can be

different when referenced later.

•To prevent an input value from changing during a scan, copy the value

to another tag and use the data from there (buffer the values).

Term Definition

Connection A communication link between two devices, such as between a controller and an I/O module, PanelView

terminal, or another controller.

Connections are allocations of resources that provide more reliable communications between devices than

unconnected messages. The number of connections that a single controller can have is limited.

You indirectly determine the number of connections the controller uses by configuring the controller to

communicate with other devices in the system. The following types of communication use connections:

•I/O modules

•produced and consumed tags

•certain types of Message (MSG) instructions (not all types use a connection)

Requested packet

interval (RPI) The RPI specifies the period at which data updates over a connection. For example, an input module sends data

to a controller at the RPI that you assign to the module.

•Typically, you configure an RPI in milliseconds (ms). The range is 0.2 ms (200 microseconds)…750 ms.

•If a ControlNet network connects the devices, the RPI reserves a slot in the stream of data flowing across the

ControlNet network. The timing of this slot may not coincide with the exact value of the RPI, but the control

system guarantees that the data transfers at least as often as the RPI.

ATTENTION

Make sure that data memory contains the appropriate values

throughout a task’s execution. You can duplicate or buffer data

at the beginning of the scan to provide reference values for

your logic.

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