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MBE Modicon Modbus Ethernet Driver
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Description
ProductVersionModule
HMI/SCADA - iFIX All All
Code : MBE
Vendor : GE Intelligent Platforms
Hardware Manufacturer : Modicon

General

Platform Latest Version Type
Windows 2000 6.10 NET
WinNT 6.10 NET

Supported
Devices

Device Manufacturer Comment
Ethernet 140 NOE 211 00 module Modicon -
Quantum Automation Series PLC 140 CPU 213 04 module Modicon -

Additional
Requirements

Software Manufacturer Vendor Part No. Comment
Modsoft software Modicon Modicon - -

Protocol

Type Supported Baud Rates Data Bits Stop Bits Parity Error Checking Hand Shaking Comment
TCP/IP - - - - - - - -

Supported
Data Types

Data Type Comment
ASCII 8-bit character
DIGITAL Digital
FLOAT 32-bit IEEE floating point
LONG Unsigned 32-bit integer
SIGNED Signed 16-bit integer
SLONG Signed 32-bit integer
UNSIGNED Unsigned 16-bit integer
CFLOAT 32-bit floating point with the word order reversed

Supported
Memory Types

Device Memory Type Comment
All 0X Coil status
All 1X Input status
All 3X Input register
All 4X Holding register
All 6X General reference
All EX Exception status
All FF Fifo

Commands

Device Command Description Uses
none

Signal
Conditionings

Signal Type Description Comment Typical Gain Convergance Range
12AL 12 Bit Binary Scaled to EGUs - Alarming on out of range Ignores most significant 4 bits (nibble). - -
12BN 12 Bit Binary Scaled to EGUs- No Alarming on out of range Ignores most significant 4 bits (nibble). - -
15AL 15 Bit Binary Scaled to EGUs - Alarming on out of range Ignores most significant bit. - -
15BN 15 Bit Binary Scaled to EGUs - No Alarming on out of range Ignores most significant bit. - -
3BCD 3 Digit Binary Coded Decimal Scaled to EGUs. Alarming on out of range. Ignores most significant 4 bits (nibble). - -
4BCD 4 Digit Binary Coded Decimal Scaled to EGUs. Alarming on out of range. - -
LIN Value scaled to EGUs No alarming on out of range. Signed and Unsigned data types. - -
LV15 Performs live zero scaling on 16-bit raw data (0 - 32767). - - -
LVZ 1-5V. Linear Scaled from low to high EGU Alarming on out of range. - -
LZ12 12 Bit 4-20 mA inputs - Alarming out of range - - -
NONE Returns raw value No alarming on out of range. - -
REG 0 - 9999 Decimal Alarming on out of range. - -
SQ12 Square Root Input Only Alarming on out of range. - -
SQ15 0 to 32767 Square Root Conditioning Alarming on out of range. - -
SQR Square Root Scaled low to high EGU Alarming on out of range. - -

Miscellaneous
Info

Relevant Notes
-

History

Revision History
Reason for 6.10b Release on 12/18/97:
Added support for port switching on demand. This allows the customer
to switch from primary to backup in View. Also, the customer can
create logic to monitor bits in the controller that will tell if the
current PLC is active or in backup mode and have the driver switch
accordingly.

Reason for 6.10c Release on 6/1/98:
Corrected problem with resource handles being lost if driver configured
to talk to a non-existing device.

Reason for 6.10d Release on 11/24/98:
Corrected problem of digital register writes not working. Also, added
handling and support for gateway access.

NOTE: Export/Import of Driver Image Table (DIT) MUST be performed
when upgrading to this new version of the driver.

Reason for 6.10e Release on 12/21/98:
Corrected problem of poll records taking excessive time to fail after
a PLC power down or cable disconnect.

Reason for 6.10f Release on 1/15/99:
Corrected problem of previously written data being re-written to the
PLC when writing digital data into analog registers.

Reason for 6.10g Release on 8/30/99:
Corrected problem of bits overwriting other bits in the same word
when writing to bit offsets in analog memory locations.

Reason for 6.10h Release on 6/28/00:
Corrected problem of data not being written to a device when
sending a large number of analog writes.

Reason for 6.10i Release on 6/28/00:
Corrected a problem with the CSV import. The Data Type of
the first poll record was changing to Unsigned even though
it is correct in the CSV file.

Reason for 6.10j Release on 2/2/01:
Corrected a problem with digital writes. Added the
ability to:

* Specify duplicate IP addresses at the channel level.
* Write text data to unsigned integer poll records.
* Create a unique transaction id number for each response
from the driver automatically. This number helps to
identify responses from the driver.

Reason for 6.10k Release on 3/1/01:
Corrected a problem with sending and receiving random
values after a network failure. Also added CFloat
datatype. This is a float with the word order reversed.

Reason for 6.10l Release on 4/6/01:
Corrected a problem with the Reload command being grayed out
under iFIX 2.5.

Reason for 6.10m Release on 10/24/01:
Corrected a problem with digital writes. Apparently when
many writes are pending for a poll record, the poll record
was unable to handle all requests.

Also corrected a problem where one device failing on a
channel was causing all devices the channel to fail.
Changed the driver so that a failed device does not cause
the devices on the same channel to fail.

Reason for 6.10n Release on 3/5/02:
Corrected a problem with failover. The driver was
generating the error nio_map_dev. Also corrected SQ12
signal conditioning in the manual...

Reason for 6.10o Release on 03/05/2003:
Modified documentation to comply with GE standards.


Details
ID: DG110
Category: I/O Drivers
Last Updated: 03/29/10
Date Created: 04/24/00
Status: Published
Attachments: Yes
Language: English


 


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