fc5121

The FC512x PC plug-in cards link the PC (PCI Express) to a CANopen network. They optionally act as network master or slave. In addition, general CAN messages can be sent or received – without having to bother with CAN frames in the application program. The cards provide a powerful implementation of the protocol, offering many desirable features: All CANopen PDO communication types are supported: event driven, time driven (using an event timer), synchronous, polling. individual monitoring of the process data objects synchronization with the PC controller’s task cycle SDO parameter communication at start-up and runtime emergency message handling Guarding and Heartbeat boot-up according to DS 302 powerful parameter and diagnostics interfaces freely configurable error management for each bus user it is possible to read the bus configuration and the node parameters. online bus load display In TwinCAT, all functions are conveniently available.