Spirta + CP1616 testing - Synchronous AR

[mdonadon]

Hello,
We have a drive connected to a PC equipped with CP1616 and Spirta. We bought the CP1616 to test the drive before going to a PROFINET lab and try the certification (RT and IRT).
I was expecting Spirta to establish a synchronous communication with the drive (for example in test Syncslave01_WFU)... what I get instead is that, every time the application relation is configured, Spirta sets the cycle time but the synchronization mode is always non-synchronous.
I am pretty sure that the IRT specifications in the GSDML file are ok as well as the drive configuration (we use the HMS Anybus CompactCom 40 PIR to interface the network).
What kind of AR should I expect to be established by Spirta? Any suggestion please?
Thank you, regards.
Michel

[DanielS]

Hello,
We have a drive connected to a PC equipped with CP1616 and Spirta. We bought the CP1616 to test the drive before going to a PROFINET lab and try the certification (RT and IRT).
I was expecting Spirta to establish a synchronous communication with the drive (for example in test Syncslave01_WFU)... what I get instead is that, every time the application relation is configured, Spirta sets the cycle time but the synchronization mode is always non-synchronous.
I am pretty sure that the IRT specifications in the GSDML file are ok as well as the drive configuration (we use the HMS Anybus CompactCom 40 PIR to interface the network).
What kind of AR should I expect to be established by Spirta? Any suggestion please?
Thank you, regards.
Michel

Hi Michel,

do you get an error from the SPIRTA Tool or does the tests are marked with pass? There are no issues known regarding the SPIRTA test within this behavior.
Please make also sure that the correct driver for CP1616 is installed. This driver is delivered with the testbundle. It is only a batch file you have to execute. The normal SIMATIC NET driver for CP1616 shall not be installed as this will not work with SPIRTA Testtool.

BR.
Daniel