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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 27, 2007
Filed:
Oct. 05, 2004
Peter Becker, Gaggenau, DE;
Albert Renschler, Ettlingen, DE;
Peter Becker, Gaggenau, DE;
Albert Renschler, Ettlingen, DE;
Siemens Aktiengesellschaft, Munich, DE;
Abstract
A method and an engineering system that reduce the configuration complexity with regard to a possible expansion of the automation device are provided. The automation device includes slave units and a master unit () connected to the slave units via a bus. The slave units include one or more slave units () and one or more reserve slave units (). The configuration of a reserve slave unit () enables the master access time interval () and the slave access time intervals () to be expanded for a possible expansion of the automation device. As a result, a configured automation device of this type can be expanded by an additional slave unit without additional configuration or reconfiguration.