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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 24, 2012
Filed:
Sep. 04, 2008
Bernhard Wiesgickl, Vilseck, DE;
Bernhard Wiesgickl, Vilseck, DE;
Siemens Aktiengesellschaft, Munich, DE;
Abstract
A communication method and a master-slave system, for a field bus configures according to the AS-interface standard, are disclosed. Such a master-slave system for a field bus configured according to the AS-interface standard connects a master to a number of slaves. This field bus forms a first communication channel for the master and the slaves. In at least one embodiment, the master communicates with the slaves in sequence via telegrams, which are each uniquely associated with one of the slaves. Between the master and slaves a second communication channel is provided in at least one embodiment, via which one of the telegrams may be repeated, in addition to the first communication channel, if the communication of said telegram via the first communication channel has failed.