CIMPLICITYAllen-Bradley Communications Features
The Allen-Bradley Communications enabler:
- Provides the following features:
- Configuration functions for defining the logical communication ports used by CIMPLICITY software for the device interface. A device communications process is attached to each port, and up to four communication processes can be configured for a CIMPLICITY computer.
- Configuration functions for defining the devices accessed via each communication port and the data or "points" to be exchanged.
- Asynchronous exchange of data between CIMPLICITY software and a variety of devices.
- Support for collecting data from the AllenÂBradley processors via unsolicited data messages.
- Alarm generation when a communication failure occurs.
A utility program for Ethernet communications, abiping.exe , which is used for validating the network addresses that must be specified for each device to which communications are to be established.
- Supports the following CIMPLICITY features:
- Polled reads at user defined rates
- Poll after setpoint
- Triggered reads
- Analog deadband
- Alarm on communications failure
- Server Redundancy configurations
- Supports the following data types:
- Signed 8, 16, and 32 bit integer
- Unsigned 8, 16, and 32 bit integers
- Text
- Arrays
- Floats (for most supported device types).
