Introduction

The functionalities of the Beckhoff PCI card FC310x (as Master and Slave) for use under TwinCAT (NCI, PTP, PLC and IO) is described below.
TwinCAT 2.7 does not support all the functions described below. TwinCAT 2.8 on the other hand supports all functions described below, with the exception of redundancy and of the ADS server interface of the FC310x as a slave (these will both be supported as from TwinCAT 2.9).

The following chapters also apply to the PROFIBUS connection for the CX1000 (CX1500-M310 (master) or CX1500-B310 (slave)); the name FC310x then also refers to the CX1500-M310 master or CX1500-B310 slave connection.