The default address mapping used by ModMaster is shown below:
Table 2. Default address mapping
| Base Address | Number of Addresses | |
|---|---|---|
| Holding Register | 0 | 65536 |
| Input Register | 0 | 65536 |
| Coil | 0 | 0 |
| Discrete Input | 0 | 0 |
This mapping overlays input registers and holding registers, and makes message addresses and model addresses identical. It effectively disables discrete inputs and coils by setting the sizes of these address ranges to zero.
Another example mapping is the traditional non-overlaid setup used by Modicon (also known as 5-digit addressing):
Table 3. Traditional Modicon 5-digit address mapping
| Base Address | Number of Addresses | |
|---|---|---|
| Holding Register | 40001 | 9999 |
| Input Register | 30001 | 9999 |
| Coil | 1 | 9999 |
| Discrete Input | 10001 | 9999 |
A more recent version of the traditional Modicon scheme uses 6-digit addresses:
Table 4. Modicon 6-digit address mapping
| Base Address | Number of Addresses | |
|---|---|---|
| Holding Register | 400001 | 65536 |
| Input Register | 300001 | 65536 |
| Coil | 1 | 65536 |
| Discrete Input | 100001 | 65536 |
The following table shows a "simple" example of overlaying coils with holding registers:
Table 5. Overlaid address mapping
| Base Address | Number of Addresses | |
|---|---|---|
| Holding Register | 0 | 65536 |
| Coil | 100 | 96 |
With this mapping, registers 100..105 would be accessible as holding registers 100..105 and also as coils 0..95 (assuming the use of 16-bit registers).
For example, using the overlaying rules coil 37 would map to bit 5 (37 modulo 16) of register 102 (100 + 37 / 16). Which bit of the register is "bit 5" would, of course, depend on the Swap Bytes and Reverse Bits settings.