BECKHOFF EL6930 - Manual (Page 49)

Operation
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4.3 Commissioning on Siemens F-CPU
4.3.1 Requirement
The requirement for the commissioning of the EL6930 with a PROFIsafe connection is a safety controller
with PROFIBUS or PROFINET and with a certified PROFIsafe host. Furthermore the Simatic Step7
program with the extension S7 distributed Safety is needed for the configuration.
4.3.2 Installing the EL6930 in Step7
So that the EL6930 is selectable later in the device catalogue, the device description file for PROFIBUS
(GSD) or PROFINET (GSDML) must be installed first. This can be done in the Step7 program HW Config
as follows: