SIMOTION P with MCI-PN - PROFINET - Siemens  |   12/02/2008 10:24 PM  
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SIMOTION P

SIMOTION P350 is a PC-based Motion Control system. Windows XP Professional with a real-time extension for SIMOTION is used as the operating system. This allows, apart from SIMOTION machine applications, additional PC applications to run at any time, e.g. the SIMOTION engineering system, an operating application, a process data evaluation, standard PC applications, etc. Various panel variants are available for the operation of the industrial PC (e.g. keyboard and mouse / touch screen). The drives and the IO are connected using two PROFIBUS interfaces and/or with PROFINET using the MCI-PN option board.

MCI-PN communication board
The MCI-PN communication board for SIMOTION P350 permits the connection to a PROFINET IO network. Thus, in the PROFINET context, SIMOTION P350 is a PROFINET IO controller and offers comprehensive functions:
  • 100 Mbit/s full-duplex
  • Support of the PROFINET IO real-time classes RT and IRT
  • Connection of distributed IO and drives (with PROFIdrive V4) as PROFINET IO devices
  • Support of standard Ethernet communications
  • Integrated four-port switch with four RJ45 sockets based on the PROFINET ASICs ERTEC400
This allows the construction of the optimum topology without requiring external switches.
Siemens AG 2008