Promoted by PROFIBUS international, PROFINET is an Ethernet-based networking solution for industrial automation. ROFINET protocol capitalizes on the advantages that “Industrial Ethernet” brings to the automation environment while providing automation services comparable to PROFIBUS to enable better networking plant-wide.
With the new Brad® PROFINET IO Software Development Kit, manufacturers can develop and market PROFINET more quickly. The kit enables customers to design PROFINET IO-Controller (master) devices such as PLC couplers, PC-based interface cards, Panel PC and Robot controllers.
The Brad® PROFINET IO Development Kit supports any hardware platform and is compatible with operating systems (real-time or not) implementing multithread user applications. The deliverable development kit package includes: ANSI C source code, user reference guide and samples of implementation in various operating systems.
Features
- PROFINET Console functionality
• Configuration file in XML format
• Device description compatible with GSDML v1 and v2.1 files
• Automatic Network Detection
• Online Actions (IP configuration, diagnostics, etc)
• Automatic generation of devices items based on GSDML device description
• IO-Device diagnostic
- Stack Features
• Support of LLDP and MRP
• Developped according PROFINET IO specifications v2.2
• Multi platform stack (Intel, ARM, PowerPC, Texas DSP, Fido)
• Support of Intel and Motorola data format
• Examples of OS porting: Windows, VxWorks, Linux, eCOS, ThreadX
• Open configuration file based on XML format v1.0, v2.1 and v2.2
• Advanced OEM Engineering Configuration Console
• Sending and receiving of diagnostic and process alarms, and plug and pull alarms
• IP address and device name assignment via DCP / Local
• Context management
• Cyclic data exchange with PROFINET IO-Devices
• Full IO data image through consistent shared memory
• Sending and receiving of diagnostic and process alarms, and plug and pull alarms
• Stack initialization via open XML import file
