The Schneider Electric Fipio fieldbus is a standard means of communication between different control system components, enabling up to 127 devices to be connected at the connection point integrated in the processor. Conforming to the WorldFip standard based on producer/consumer mechanisms, it is designed for remote location of l/O up to 15 km away and enables a third-party Schneider device to be installed. The bus arbitrator (manager) can be a Premium™ TSX P57 compatible processor or Atrium™ TSX P57 coprocessor.

The Fipway® network is an open local area network for communication between Micro™ and Premium PLCs using the X-Way services. Communication conforms to the Fip standard with access via a bus arbitrator.

Micro TSX 37-21/22 and Premium PLCs can be connected to a Fipway network using a Fipway PCMCIA card which is inserted in each processor or into the TSX SCY 21601 (Premium) communication module.
Supported X-Way services include:

• Uni-TE services
• Distributed database (COM) or Shared Table
• Telegram (service only available when the PCMCIA card is inserted in the processor)
• Application-to-application communication