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News Release from: Contec Microelectronics | Subject: PLC Link Server
Edited by the Buildingtalk Editorial
Team on 10 November 2005
Contec Microelectronis introduce PLC
Link Server
Contec Microelectronis Europe introduces a PLC Link Server which allows a networked computer to obtain and update internal register information of Mitsubishi MELSEC-Q PLC series.
PLC Link Server for remote management of Mitsubishi PLCs over the LAN Inbox Mustafa Okanovic
This article was originally published on Buildingtalk on 14 Sep 2005 at 8.00am (UK)
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Available as the PLC link server is either the SVR-PLCLC(FIT)GY with an RS-232C or the SVR-PLCLD(FIT)GY with an RS-422/485 connection.
Connecting the PLCs to a network is nothing new.
What's unique about the CONTEC PLC Server family is that the MELSEC-Q PLCs are programmed and controlled directly from the customer's PC over LAN.
The user simply connects the CONTEC PLC server to their PLCs and programs the PLC directly from anywhere, trough the LAN.
Trough the innovative F and eIT protocol, the CONTEC PLC server approach is unique in that the F and eIT Protocol assigns all device resources (including information) to virtual space.
Any access to a device will be performed by specifying a virtual address.
The virtual space is divided into information common to devices, device-specific information, I/O space, and memory space.
The specific location in the virtual space where information is stored and the method by which information is stored is completely transparent to where or how information is stored in actual physical resources.
Features - Accessing registers of MELSEC-Q Mitsubishi PLCs connected either trough RS-232 or RS-422/485 port - RS-422 and RS-485 full-duplex transmission support.
- Support for 10BASE-T and 100BASE-TX LAN - TCP/IP and UDP/IP support - Bundled driver library available for control programming on customer PC - Easily configurable with bundled utility software - Easy setup using the ID switch and MODE switch.
- Similar to other F and eIT series products, the PLC server series is desigend in a 35mm DIN rail form, which make it easily to mount within a PLC architecture.
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