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RMC100 Profibus

Fieldbus Communications for RMC100 Motion Controllers

PROFIBUS is a vendor independent, open fieldbus standard for a wide range of applications in manufacturing and factory automation.

This high-speed fieldbus was designed especially for communicating between programmable controllers and distributed I/O such as the RMC100 motion controller.

The RMC100's PROFIBUS-DP interface gives the flexibility of three operating modes. You can select the mode that best fits your application and the PROFIBUS master's capabilities.

Features

Allows connection of up to 126 nodes to a single network spanning up to 14km
Supports data rates up to 12Mbaud:
high-speed, on-the-fly downloading of positions and parameters to the RMC module
high-speed uploading of motion profile and status information to the host controller
Three operating modes: Message Mode, Compact Mode with Sync, and Compact Mode without Sync

PROFIBUS-DP Masters

This is a partial list of the platforms which either are PROFIBUS-DP masters or for which a master can be purchased:

Allen-Bradley 1746 (SLC 5/03 or later)
Allen-Bradley 1771 (PLC 5)
GE Fanuc Series 90-30
Modicon TSX Momentum
Modicon TSX Quantum
PC (PCI)
PC (PC/104)
PC (PCMCIA)
Reliance AutoMax PLC
Siemens SIMATIC PLCs (505, S7-300, S7-400, S5)
VME Bus

A complete list of vendors of PROFIBUS products can be obtained at http://www.profibus.com or by calling the PROFIBUS Trade Organization (PTO) at 602-483-2456.