GE Industrial Solutions 6KCV301PDP33 Profibus - DP Bus for AV300i - Manual (Page 6)

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The total cycle time depends on the number of Slaves connected; the 1.5-Mbit/
s Baud Rate allows 8 SIEI drives to be polled in 6 milliseconds.
The physical support is the RS485 serial line; the max. number of Slaves
connected to the Bus is 125.
Example of Mono-Master Profibus-DP system.
MASTER
SLAVE SLAVE SLAVE
Profibus-DP allows a Multi-Master system as well. For further information
please refer to chapters 6 and 7 of the “Draft Standard DIN 19245 Part 3”
manual.