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PCMCIA Modules for the Allen-Bradley SLC 1746 I/O chassis


Features Include

  • Easily read and write up to 2 GigaBytes (GB) of PCMCIA Memory card data which is 250 MegaWords (MW) of Controller data
  • Communicates with the Allen-Bradley® SLC 5/03, 5/04 or 5/05 over the SLC backplane using standard Ladder Instructions
  • Communicates with a PC over a TCP/IP Ethernet network using a PCMCIA Ethernet card
  • Communicates with ASCII Serial devices over an RS232 channel using a PCMCIA Serial card
  • Data stored in ASCII format can be read and written by an Allen-Bradley® SLC 5/03, 5/04, 5/05, Microsoft® Access™, Excel™, Word™ and most Text Editors
  • Data stored in Binary format can be read and written by an Allen-Bradley® SLC 5/03, 5/04, and 5/05
  • Other than a PCMCIA card, this module does not require additional hardware, software or cables


Applications Include

  • Data Logging: Save (Write) Production, Process and Alarm Status from Allen-Bradley® Controllers
  • Recipe Loading: Load (Read) Process Information to Allen-Bradley® Controllers
  • e-Manufacturing: Communicate between the factory floor and the enterprise, View and Analyze data in real-time


SLC Backplane Interface

  • Single slot, Class 4 module for the SLC 1746 I/O chassis
  • 250 word M0 file for Command, Reply and Status
  • 30,000 word M1 file for User Data
  • 250 word G file for User Configuration
  • 2,250 word G file for File Transfers
  • Does not use Input or Output files, therefore it does not use any I/O space


PCMCIA Sockets

  • Has two hot swappable, Plug and Play, Type II PCMCIA sockets
  • Each socket can hold a different Type I or Type II PCMCIA card, OR both sockets can be used to hold one Type III PCMCIA card
  • Accepts the following 5 Volt, 1 Amp, 8 and 16 bit PCMCIA cards (CardBus NOT supported):
    • ATA Flash (up to 2GB)
    • Battery Backed SRAM
    • Serial I/O
    • Ethernet


Programming

  • Read file, Write file, Make directory, Delete file or directory, Format disk, Send stream and Receive stream are programmed with standard Ladder Instructions
  • Read / Write up to 30,000 words of data per function call (transfer between the M1 file and the Module file system)
  • Any mix of data types (S, B, T, C, R, N, F, A, ST, I/O, M) can be stored
  • Command execution, using M0 file, behaves as an immediate instruction (does not wait for End of Scan nor interfere with SLC scan time)
  • User programmable, non-retentive Real Time Calendar / Clock
  • 8 user programmable LED's


Hardware

Feature

Network Drive

Operating System

Microsoft®
Windows CE™

PCMCIA Cards Supported

ATA Flash
Battery Backed SRAM
Serial I/O
10baseT Ethernet

File Systems

1 Internal 4 Mbyte FLASH FAT16
1 Internal 4 Mbyte RAM FAT16
2 PCMCIA Card FAT16
2 Remote Common Internet (CIFS)

File Format

Universal Naming Convention (UNC)

Connections

2 Serial I/O (COM1/2)
2 Ethernet TCP/IP HTTP Server
2 Ethernet TCP/IP CIFS Client

System Speed

133 MHz

System DRAM

32 MBytes

System Flash

32 MBytes


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