Technical Data

The System Data of AC500 and S500 System Data AC500 are valid for standard version.

The System Data of AC500-XC System Data AC500-XC are valid for the XC version.

Only additional details are therefore documented below.

Parameter Value
Protocol PROFINET I/O RT
Bus connection 2 x RJ45 (PNIO1 and PNIO2), with integrated 2-port switch
Switch Integrated
Technology Hilscher netX100
Transfer rate 100 MBit/s (full-duplex)
Transfer method According to ETHERNET II, IEE802.3
Bus length (segment length max.) 100 m
Indicators 5 LEDs
Usable terminal bases

All TB5xx TB51x-TB54x

All TB56xx: TB56xx

Supported alarm types Process alarm, diagnostic alarm, return of SubModule, plug alarm, pull alarm
Alarm processing Requires handling in application program
Current consumption from 24 V DC power supply at the terminal base of the CPU Typ. 85 mA
Internal supply Via the communication module interface of the terminal base
Weight Ca. 170 g
Supported protocols

RTC - real-time cyclic protocol, class 1

RTA - real-time acyclic protocol

DCP - discovery and configuration protocol *

CL-RPC - connectionless remote procedure call

Since revision FW 2.4.8.0 additionally

LLDP - link layer discovery protocol

SNMP - simply network management protocol (SNMP v1)

Acyclic services PNIO read / write (max. 1392 bytes per telegram, max. 4096 bytes per service request)
Total quantity of input and output data

CM579-PNIO < FW 2.4.8.0

1024 bytes input and output data per IO device

but in total 3072 bytes input output data

CM579-PNIO = FW 2.4.8.0

1024 bytes input and output data per IO device

but in total 4096 bytes input output data

CM579-PNIO > FW 2.4.8.0

1440 bytes input and output data per IO device

but in total 4096 bytes input output data

Min. bus cycle 1 ms
Conformance class CC A

* CM579-PNIO does not allow setting “Station name” by using PROFINET service “DCP SET NameOfStation”.