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When you configure a Main driver worksheet, you can configure multiple data types in the address column and you can configure multiple devices in induusoft station column.
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The same limitations are imposed on these Read Groups for the block size limit of the protocol as well. Communication tab of the Project Settings dialog. It is also valid to use both types, according to the needs of your particular project. This driver worksheet is optimal for an easy configuration, but may have less flexibility.
Built-in Scripting Language Appendix: If the driver task is able to send all requests before another trigger occurs, then the driver task will have some idle time where no requests are sent during some part of one or more time slices, but this is quite rare and would be true only if very few tags were configured.
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Most users choose either to use the Main Driver Sheet exclusively and let it optimize the number of Read Groups if the performance is good enough for their project or to use the Standard Driver Sheets exclusively, so they control what tags are in each group, and the manner in which reads and writes are triggered for each worksheet. Since the Main Driver Sheet is less complex than the standard driver worksheet, we will look at how its triggers work first.
Each virtual group is created by dividing the entries according to the device address from the station fieldthen by dividing the entries for a particular device by data type from the address fieldand then by dividing those according to the block size limit of the protocol.
Specifically, for this discussion, the various threads or tasks that make up the application have to share processor time with the tasks of any other currently executing applications, and the operating system is the ultimate arbiter of which task runs at a given time. These operations are fairly independent. The driver task consists of two main operations, building the queue stack of requests abtxp executing the queue.
When you configure a Standard driver worksheet, you will notice that there is only one Station field for the entire worksheet. In the majority of circumstances by far, it is not necessary to change the default values assigned to idusoft fields, as they are generally large enough to accommodate requests and responses that are handled by the driver. It is important to note that this entry is automatically induwoft by the Main Driver Sheet in generating the Virtual Read Groups.
Responses to the requests are likewise stored in a receive buffer, and the appropriate data is parsed from the buffer and nidusoft to the associated tags on the driver worksheet.
You can view these virtual groups by right clicking on the driver icon on the taskbar during runtime and selecting Virtual Read Groups from the popup menu. With the main driver worksheet, you can mix and match PLCs, controllers, and device memory types within the same worksheet.
By default, port is assumed. You should also be aware that the Write Trigger field on a Standard Driver Abtc has its own behavior. Buffer Size Each time the driver task in Indusoft generates a request, it allocates memory to store the request data, then forwards this data to the serial or Ethernet port associated with the driver from which it originates.
Additionally, the TWCAT driver uses controller tag names exclusively, and the OMRON and ABCIP drivers can be configured to use either block addressing or controller tag names in their later releases, so the rules for block size and address ranges covered below will not be the same in those modes.
The main driver worksheet is not available for all drivers, but the majority of drivers support it.
Remember, each time a Read Trigger occurs, the request for this worksheet is added to the queue if there is not one already there. In the PLC Family list, click the device family. Additionally, you wish for any tag whose value changed on the Indusoft side to immediately generate a priority Write item, then you can place a 1 in the Enable Read when Idle field and a 1 in the Enable Write on Tag Change field, and the behavior will mimic that of the Main Driver Sheet, as described above, You may, however, wish to organize your worksheets according to specific equipment groups or project screens, or you may have a large number of tags which affect the performance of the driver task, and you may want to read some of them more frequently than others.
When configuring the Standard driver worksheet for a given protocol, you will need to use something of a trial and error methodology to establish that limit for each of the data types you configure. As mentioned previously, configuring a set of Standard Driver Sheets each worksheet a separate Read Group is the manual equivalent of the automatic creation of virtual read groups done by the MDS.
The range defined by the highest and lowest addresses configured in the Standard driver worksheet must conform to what is allowed in a single request for the specified data type.
Click OK to close the Memory Area dialog box, and then repeat the previous step as needed. Additional Standard driver worksheets may be required to avoid exceeding this limit on any one worksheet. Before you begin this task, you should do the following: This is a manual implementation of the same constraints indusoff on a Virtual Read Group in the Main driver worksheet, and in fact, each Standard driver worksheet represents a Read Group. For example a mA signal that is read as a value from can be converted to a range that applies to engineering units such as temperature or pressure.
Again, putting the tag BlinkFast in that field is not going to guarantee a request for this worksheet will be indusfot every ms. Additionally, you will notice that the Header field specifies the starting address within a particular data block from which each value in the Address column of the worksheet will be offset to specify an address within that block.
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