Addressing

Property

Description

Name

Any name may be chosen. ATTENTION: the name must be unique within every control system project.

Identification

Any text can be entered here, e.g. for resource labels, comments ...

Net address

not used for this driver

Data block

not used for this driver

Offset

Offset of the variable; the memory address of the variable in the allocation file. When online importing a variable, the offset will be configured automatically. Configurable [0.. 4294967295]

Alignment

not used for this driver

Bit number

Number of the bit within the configured offset.

Valid input [0.. 65535], Working range [0..7]

String length

Only available for String variables: Maximum number of characters that the variable can take.

Driver object type

Depending on the employed driver, an object type is selected during the creation of the variable; the type can be changed here later.

Data type

Data type of the variable, which is selected during the creation of the variable; the type can be changed here later.

ATTENTION: If you change the data type later, all other properties of the variable must be checked and adjusted, if necessary.