Abstract: A data bus subscriber connected to a local bus, particularly a ring bus, has a status signal input for receiving a first status signal value from a downstream data bus subscriber or a terminator, and a status signal output for providing a second status signal value to an upstream data bus subscriber or to a local bus master. The data bus subscriber is adapted to provide the second status signal value based on a logical link of a communication readiness of the data bus subscriber and the first status signal value.

Abstract: A method for enumerative address allocation in a communication network is provided. The communication network may comprise a plurality of communication participants and at least one address providing communication participant. The communication network may be free of meshes. The method may comprise assigning participant-specific addresses to a first group of communication participants which are connected in series. The participant-specific addresses may be defined based on an address enumeration rule, which may depend on the order of the communication participants of the first group. The method may further comprise generating at least one routing table. The routing table may comprise a proper subset of the participant-specific addresses. The routing table may comprise the address enumeration rule for these addresses. Based on the routing table, a message from the address providing communication participant can be routed to any communication participant in the first group.

Abstract: A method, apparatus, and computer programs for event-based operation of a programmable automation device, the method comprising: receiving a change notification indicating a changed value of an input of the automation device. A data point of an input process image of the automation device assigned to the input is updated based on the changed value. A change indicator of the data point of the input process image is set, which indicates that the data point has been updated. The invention enables more performance results with considerable resource savings (especially consumption of electrical energy), especially in fields of application with only rare changes to control data and/or changes to the control data on only a small scale.

Abstract: A method for participant-specific address allocation in a communication network is provided. The communication network may have a plurality of communication participants, in particular at least one address providing communication participant. The communication connections between the communication participants may separable. The method may comprise generating a state of the communication network in which the address providing communication participant can reach exactly one communication participant that does not have a participant-specific address via a broadcast message. This may be based, in particular, on the separable communication connections. The method may comprise sending a broadcast message comprising a participant-specific address to be assigned to the address seeking communication participant in order to enable communication by unicast addressing with the address seeking communication participant. This may be done by the address providing communication participant.

Abstract: Provided are methods, devices/apparatus and computer programs for configuring a programmable automation device. The method includes receiving a user-defined behavior description for defining a runtime behavior of the automation device and automatically generating a control program and a configuration for the automation device based on the behavior description. The control program and configuration may then be used for resource-saving operation of automation devices.

Abstract: A system and a method for restoring or transferring operational parameters to a first component of a modular automation device. The method comprises dividing the operational parameters into a first parameter set, which enables the first component to communicate with a server that is accessible via a network connection of the automation device, and a second parameter set, storing the first parameter set on one or more second components of the modular automation device, and storing the second parameter set on the server.

Abstract: A data bus subscriber connected to a local bus, particularly a ring bus, has a status signal input for receiving a first status signal value from a downstream data bus subscriber or a terminator, and a status signal output for providing a second status signal value to an upstream data bus subscriber or to a local bus master. The data bus subscriber is adapted to provide the second status signal value based on a logical link of a communication readiness of the data bus subscriber and the first status signal value.

Abstract: A data bus subscriber and a method for processing data, wherein the data bus subscriber can be connected to a local bus, particularly a ring bus, and the data bus subscriber has an input interface, which can be connected to the local bus, for receiving first local bus data, an output interface, which can be connected to the local bus, for transmitting second local bus data, a processing component for synchronous processing of the first local bus data and/or data stored in a memory and for output of at least one control signal, a logic unit, which is adapted in order to modify a quantity of received first local bus data based on the control signal in order to generate the second local bus data to be transmitted, wherein the logic unit is further adapted for synchronous, delayed transmitting of the second local bus data via the output interface.

Abstract: A module unit for connecting a data bus participant to a local bus. The module unit has a first input interface and a first output interface which can be connected to the local bus, a first data connection interface which can be connected to the data bus participant, and a first switch which is adapted so as to assume a first or a second switch state depending on a control input from the data bus participant, connect the first input interface to the first output interface in the first switch state, and connect the first data connection interface to the first output interface in the second switch state.

Abstract: A data bus subscriber connected to a local bus, particularly a ring bus. The data bus subscriber has a status signal input for receiving a first status signal value from a downstream data bus subscriber or a terminator, a status signal output for providing a second status signal value to an upstream data bus subscriber or to a local bus master, wherein the data bus subscriber is adapted to provide the second status signal value based on a logical link of a communication readiness of the data bus subscriber and the first status signal value. The invention further relates to a corresponding method and a local bus.

Abstract: A method for operating a data bus subscriber of a local bus, particularly of a ring bus, the method including the steps of: receiving a first data packet over the local bus, wherein the first data packet has an address of the data bus subscriber to which it is directed and at least one instructions list, having a set of instructions for processing process data, receiving a second data packet over the local bus, wherein the second data packet has process data; and executing instructions of the at least one instructions list for processing the received process data. A corresponding data bus subscriber and a local bus master is also provided.

Abstract: A data bus subscriber and a method for processing data, wherein the data bus subscriber can be connected to a local bus, particularly a ring bus, and the data bus subscriber has an input interface, which can be connected to the local bus, for receiving first local bus data, an output interface, which can be connected to the local bus, for transmitting second local bus data, a processing component for synchronous processing of the first local bus data and/or data stored in a memory and for output of at least one control signal, a logic unit, which is adapted in order to modify a quantity of received first local bus data based on the control signal in order to generate the second local bus data to be transmitted, wherein the logic unit is further adapted for synchronous, delayed transmitting of the second local bus data via the output interface.

Abstract: An apparatus with a data input, a data output, a first buffer, a second buffer, and control logic is disclosed. The control logic is equipped to route data packets that are received through the data input to the first buffer or the second buffer and to flag them as valid or invalid, and to provide data packets that are to be output through the data output from the first buffer or the second buffer, equipped to provide a data packet that is to be output through the data output from the first buffer when the data packet is being written into the first buffer at the time of a start of the readout, to provide it from the second buffer when the data packet is being written into the second buffer at the time of a start of the readout.

Abstract: A data bus subscriber connected to a local bus, particularly a ring bus. The data bus subscriber has a status signal input for receiving a first status signal value from a downstream data bus subscriber or a terminator, a status signal output for providing a second status signal value to an upstream data bus subscriber or to a local bus master, wherein the data bus subscriber is adapted to provide the second status signal value based on a logical link of a communication readiness of the data bus subscriber and the first status signal value. The invention further relates to a corresponding method and a local bus.

Abstract: A data bus subscriber connected to a local bus, particularly a ring bus. The data bus subscriber has a status signal input for receiving a first status signal value from a downstream data bus subscriber or a terminator, a status signal output for providing a second status signal value to an upstream data bus subscriber or to a local bus master, wherein the data bus subscriber is adapted to provide the second status signal value based on a logical link of a communication readiness of the data bus subscriber and the first status signal value. The invention further relates to a corresponding method and a local bus.

Abstract: A method for operating a local bus, in particular a ring bus, including data bus participants, as well as a local bus master are described. The method comprises transmitting a first identifier of a cycle frame, the first identifier defining the beginning of the cycle frame; transmitting process data and management data over the local bus, the process data and management data being transmitted within the cycle frame, at least one isochronous data packet containing the process data being transmitted in a first time interval for the first identifier, and, if management data is transmitted within the cycle frame, this management data is transmitted separately from the process data.

Abstract: The subject of the invention is a system (1), having a master (900), a first slave (100), a second slave (200), and a bus (40), wherein the master (900) and the first slave (100) and the second slave (200) are connected to one another by the bus (40) in order to transmit a data packet (4) from the master (900) via the first slave (100) and back to the master (900) via the second slave (200), in which the master (900) is configured to generate the data packet (4) with a header (4.1) and a data unit (4.2) and to send the generated data packet (4) on the bus (40), in which the first slave (100) is configured to write its first address (A1) and first payload data (D1) into a first segment (10) of the data unit (4.2) of the data packet (4), in which the second slave (200) is configured to write its second address (A2) and second payload data (D2) into a second segment (20) of the data unit (4.

Abstract: A module unit for connecting a data bus participant to a local bus. The module unit has a first input interface and a first output interface which can be connected to the local bus, a first data connection interface which can be connected to the data bus participant, and a first switch which is adapted so as to assume a first or a second switch state depending on a control input from the data bus participant, connect the first input interface to the first output interface in the first switch state, and connect the first data connection interface to the first output interface in the second switch state.

Abstract: A bus system, a method for operating a bus system and a participant of a bus system are provided. The participant includes a timer and a transceiver circuit. The transceiver circuit is configured to receive a data packet having a time stamp value via a bus. The timer is configured for synchronization, based on the time stamp value. The timer is configured to change the time stamp value. The transceiver circuit is configured to transmit the data packet with the changed time stamp value via the bus.

Abstract: A method is described for identifying communication-ready data bus subscribers connected to a local bus. The method comprises receiving, at a local bus master, at least one data packet transmitted via the local bus, wherein the at least one data packet received at the local bus master comprises an address of a communication-ready data bus subscriber among a plurality of communication-ready data bus subscribers in the local bus, wherein the communication-ready data bus subscriber is in a sequence of communication-ready data bus subscribers, and mapping of the received address by the local bus master to a relative position of the communication-ready data bus subscriber in the sequence of communication-ready data bus subscribers in the local bus. In addition, a local bus master of the local bus is described.