Patent ID: 11868289
Assignee: PHOENIX CONTACT GMBH & CO. KG
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  H | IPC G  H

Claim 0:
1. An input/output station for a fieldbus system with a fieldbus coupler, which has a system bus interface to a system bus and a fieldbus interface, the input/output station comprising:
a plurality of slots to the system bus for pluggable input/output devices, one or more placeholder devices being pluggable into the plurality of slots besides the input/output devices,
wherein an empty slot is admissible for the plurality of slots,
wherein the fieldbus coupler comprises firmware which is configured for a full configuration of the input/output station,
wherein the firmware is configured to communicate with a control station in such a way that the fieldbus coupler receives the full configuration of the input/output station as a planned target configuration from the control station, and
wherein the firmware is configured to confirm the full configuration of the input/output station in an operating mode irrespective of the actual occupancy of the input/output station with the pluggable input/output devices of the control station.