11/03/2005 • Automation • Industrial PCs

DF PROFI II PCI/CPCI/PC104 + High-performance PROFIBUS DP/DPV1 board

The DF PROFI II is a high performing PROFIBUS DP/DPV1 board of the newest generation and available as PCI, Compact-PCI and PC104+ board.

Beside the standard DP/DPV1 PROFIBUS services the board implements useful additional options. The implemented hardware watchdog allows the electrical switch off of the PROFIBUS interface, that allows the board to be used in redundant DP Master concepts with two PC systems.

Apart from the I/O data and status information, the process image contains a relative time stamp with a resolution of a millisecond. With common I/O data sizes up to 3 Kbytes the DF PROFI II board needs only round about 1 ms for the data exchange of the process image. It stores the PROFIBUS configuration data in a failsafe flash memory. For the compilation of the PROFIBUS configuration a powerful and comfortable tool is available.

The DF PROFI II board supports beside the popular operating systems Windows 2000/XP and Linux (SUSE, RedHat, Fedora) real-time operating systems like Linux-RT and LabVIEW-RT.

COMSOFT's configuration tool CONFIGURATOR II does not charge the user and supports a full graphical GSD file based DP Slave configuration as well as the comfortable compilation of OPC Tags. Extensive download, analysis and control functions permit an efficient start and check up of the configured PROFIBUS DP network. The compiled PROFIBUS configuration is stored in XML format that allows an easy integration into third party tools.

COMSOFT's OPC Server is implemented as free threading/multi threading server for optimum performance and supports DPV0 Master class 1 and DPV1 Master class 2 services. For the use with safety critical applications the DF PROFI II OPC Server supports DPV0 Master class 1 redundancy with two pc systems. This feature guarantees a seamless takeover and an uninterrupted continuous processing of the connected DP Slaves by the standby system if the operational system fails. The DF PROFI II hardware design allows here the simultaneous connection of two DF PROFI II boards with identical bus addresses to the PROFIBUS network without problems.

The available FDT 1.2 Communication DTM allows the use of the DF PROFI II board within any FDT 1.2 capable container program for DP Slave configuration. FDT container programs are included in many process control systems. They are also available as stand-alone solutions, e.g. Pactware of the Pactware Association.
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