About Sharp TCP/IP Communications

The Sharp TCP/IP communications module lets you exchange data between a CIMPLICITY project and Sharp PLCs over an Ethernet network using TCP/IP protocol.

This enabler supports the following CIMPLICITY features:

  • Polled reads at user defined rates
  • Poll after setpoint
  • Triggered reads
  • Unsolicited data
  • Analog deadband
  • Alarm on communications failure
  • Server Redundancy configurations

This enabler supports the following data types:

  • Signed 8, 16, and 32 bit integers
  • Unsigned 8, 16, and 32 bit integers
  • Text
  • Arrays