Course 442 Description: ControlWave® Designer Communications Programming
A continuation of ControlWave Designer Fundamentals, this course focuses on networking and communications. Students will program the ControlWave to communicate to other devices in a network, as well as transfer and receive signal lists using serial and IP communications. Other application software will be utilized to configure, establish, and debug communications with these devices.
Students will learn the advanced methods of communicating to Bristol and ControlWave devices using Client/Server modules, and to MODBUS protocol devices using custom function blocks.
WHO SHOULD ATTEND
- Personnel responsible for the establishing of communication interfaces to ControlWave Automation products
PREREQUISITES
- Successful completion of course #441, ControlWave Designer Fundamentals
- Participants must have a strong working knowledge of personal computers and Windows XP or later version
- Participants should have a strong working knowledge of their application/process
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- Master how to establish ethernet/IP communications using ControlWave Designer
- Learn to program polling and data transfers in a BSAP and I/O environment
- Understand how to use the NetView utility for defining a hierarchical network of ControlWave controllers
- Configure communications to ASCII devices
- Understand the configuration of communication via other protocols such as MODBUS
COURSE AGENDA
- NetView configuration
- Establishing a network using NetView
- Configuring polling time messages
- Communication Port configurations: • Master Port • Custom Port • User Mode • I/P
- Creating sample project load
- Configuring system variables affecting communications
- Creating separate resource configurations for debugging
- Creating Signal List using DB_Load and Variable Extension Wizard
- Transfering Signal Lists between ControlWaves, using CLIENT and SERVER function blocks and serial connections
- Programming for data transfer using I/P connections
- Communicating to other Bristol devices in a BSAP protocol network
- Configuring, establishing, and debugging communications
- MODBUS protocol – Master/ Slave/ Serial and I/P data transfer
- Dial up and radio connections
- Advanced programming techniques
- Debugging and troubleshooting
- Establishing user libraries
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