DACHS^®  PROFIBUS

PROFIBUS was the first international open and vendor independent fieldbus standard which could be used in building, material flow, process and manufacturing automation, etc.

Software support for
 - QNX 4.x and 6.x

 - Linux-Kernel independent PREEMPT_RT and Standard-Linux versions
   Our Linux software is based on the UIO-interface, so it's independent from the version of the LINUX kernel. Only the sources of the related kernel module of the UIO interface have to be recompiled for the individual 2.6.x kernel versions and the latest UIO support. The offered implementations avoid context switches in the operational mode of the master or slave in order to minimize the requested CPU time. - All C-APIs are also offered as functionblock-library for integrating into DACHSview.

Supported PROFIBUS-DP Boards @ 12 Mb/s

• PB-PRO-PCI boards: Master, DP-Slave
• PB-PRO-PCIe boards: Master, DP-Slave

• PB-PRO PC/104-Plus PCI-Boards: Master, DP-Slave

• PROFI104 ISA: Master/Slave

• PROFI104 ISA: Slave                  discontinued 2011-10-31

• PROFIboard PCI: Master/Slave 

• PROFIboard PCI: Slave              discontinued 2011-10-31

• PROFIboard ISA: Master, Slave  discontinued 2008

• CP5613 A2 DP-Master (Siemens)

• PMC251 (Kontron)
• CP351 (Kontron

PB-PRO1 board PCI	PB-PRO2 board PCI		PB-PRO PC/104-Plus

 

   These one or dual channel coprocessor PB-PRO PCI boards from Softing allow to connect a PC to a PROFIBUS-DP or PROFIBUS-FDL/FMS network. The protocol software is processed by the onboard protocol ASIC ASPC2. 

   With a transmission speed of 12Mb/s, the ASPC2 master ASIC provides access to the PROFIBUS-DP slaves. The ASIC ASPC2 allows the board also to act as a DP slave. A second on-board processor handles the communication with the host system and the DP ASIC and also the processing of the layer 7 services e.g

Dual channel PB-PRO boards can be used with master-master, master-slave, or slave-slave configuration

	PRO boards &  PROFIboards from
PROFIboard PCI		PROFI104

 

   These coprocessor boards (PROFIboard or PROFI104 from Softing) allow to connect a PC to a PROFIBUS-DP or PROFIBUS-FDL/FMS network. The protocol software is processed by the onboard protocol ASIC ASPC2 and SPC3.  With a transmission speed of 12Mb/s, the ASPC2 master ASIC provides access to the PROFIBUS-DP slaves. The ASIC SPC3 allows the board to act as a DP slave. A second on-board processor handles the communication with the host system and the DP ASIC and also the processing of the layer 7 services e.g.

Our DACHS^®  PROFIBUS application interface to the IO data is based on shared memory which provides the fastest data transfer between the application and the driver. This allows very short update cycles without overloading the CPU by unnecessary conversion or preprocessing at driver level.

The communication of the application with the driver for management, configuration, and diagnose functions is based on message passing (devctrls). 

All PROFIBUS services of the part 1-3 of the European Standard EN 50170 are completely supported in DACHS®  PROFIBUS software.  The cycle time of the drivers are adjustable in the range from 1ms to 4ms. It is also possible to trigger the bus cycle by the applicaton.

We offer packages with soft- and hardware for the following PROFIBUS protocols:

PROFIBUS DP,   PROFIBUS FDL,  PROFIBUS FMS   all @ 12Mb/s
  

DACHS^®- PROFIBUS Run-Time Packages

DACHS^®- PROFIBUS Development Packages

DP-Master Configurators
- Platform independent configurator for QNX6, Linux and MS Windows

This configurator supports a comfortable configuration based on GSD files.

- Configurator (CMD) with management and diagnostic functions under Photon

The configuration, management and diagnostic of the PROFIBUS-DP master and the related slaves are handled by the DACHS-CMD, a PHOTON application. The graphical user interface is implemented with PHOTON, the realtime-capable GUI from QNX. You retain the complete graphical surface even when handling via modem.

Soft PLC

Visual programming of hard real-time applications