ProductCode is used to distinguish the different products of a manufacturer. Each manufacturer of an EtherNet/IP device has to get one VendorID. VendorID are allocated per ODVA allowing it to be unique. The VendorID is used to identify the manufacturer of an adapter/Scanner.
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Q5: What the VendorID used for? How to get one? What about ProductCode ? An Engineering tool allows the user to configure the connection exchange cycle time & IO mapping- and generates the configuration. The EDS file is used to generate the configuration needed by the scanner to connect to the adapter. The EDS file describes the connection parameters and capacities of the adapter. Q4: How to configure a connection in between a scanner and an adapter?Įach adapter is provided with its associated EDS file.
The scanners are generally coupled with the PLC and are responsible to transfer outputs to the adapter as well as receiving inputs from the adapter. There are two types of EtherNet/IP device: The adapters that are the actuator or the sensors. Q3: What are the different EtherNet/IP devices? EtherNet/IP is a communication protocol running on top of Ethernet. It could be described as a standard interface to the application layer. CIP defines objects and messages that are common to all protocols supported by ODVA. Q2: What is the difference in between CIP and EtherNet/IP?ĬIP stands for Common Industrial Protocol. The EtherNet/IP specification s could be ordered to ODVA. The ODVA is the organization that supports the network technologies based on the Common Industrial Protocols(CIP), like DeviceNet, EtherNet/IP, CompoNet & ControlNet. Q1: What is the ODVA ? How to get access to the EtherNet/IP specification? Molex | Industrial Communication Competence Center (ICCC) | EtherNet/IP FAQ