ENGINERD^® INSIGHT

• GSD stands for General Station Description
• A GSD is a human readable ASCII text file that describes the device in specified metadata designated by PROFIBUS and PROFINET International (PI)
• A GSD is the PROFIBUS version of an EtherNet/IP EDS file
• Every I/O device installed on a PROFIBUS network must include a GSD file

Every GSD must include a vendor ID, which is only issued by PI to ensure the device meets the organization’s standard

THE RTA SOLUTION

Deliver Data from Your PROFIBUS Master to an ASCII-Based System or Controller

Real Time Automation's 460PBSA is a great tool to implement PROFIBUS devices into your PC or embedded applications that support raw ASCII data. Need to scale your data or manipulate it with other math functions? The 460PBSA allows you to add scaling to any data, apply simple math operations, add alarming and control the request speeds of your master device.