eLumina supports analog and digital signals as well as most common data types for analog signals. The eLumina system additionally uses special data types that have been implemented for the eLumina module in ibaPDA.

The following table provides an overview of the data types. The specific eLumina data types are marked in bold. For comparison, the right-hand column shows the data types of the ibaNet-E generic connectionlessmodule.

Data type name in the eLumina module

Corresponding data type in theibaNet-E-generic connectionless module

INT8

SINT

INT16

INT

INT32

DINT

UINT2

-

UINT3

-

UINT7

-

UINT8

BYTE

UINT9

-

UINT12

-

UINT16

WORD

UINT32

DWORD

FLOAT

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Another special feature of the eLumina module is the Bit-Offset property for analog signals. This enables the module to support cases where an analog value does not start at bit address 0 of a byte.