Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Matthias Clausen <[email protected]> · Fri, 23 Aug 2002 15:16:23 +0200

Hi Robby,

we are using several S7 at DESY connected to EPICS through Ethernet.
The development is based on the code which we've copied from PSI under their license agreement.
Elder Matias also contacted us for our modified version. He could not reach Steve Hunt to get an approval.
Steve??
So we are stuck here.
But if you are going towards Profibus-DP we could work together.
We have a development for Profibus-DP in the pipe. The time frame is end of this year. We will use Softing Profibus boards with the PC104 form factor. They will be installed in DIN Rail PC's running vxWorks. This task just started and I have not jet a clear information how much time we (Slava Korobov) will need to get it running.

Take care
Matthias

p.s. We will start from the Softing DOS drivers.

Robby Tanner wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> We have a variety of Siemens S7-300 and S7-400 PLCs that we need to integrate in to EPICS.  I'm wondering if anyone has any information on where to begin.  Ideally, we would like to talk S7 to them but failing that could probably settle for Profibus-DP.  From the IOC side of things, we have a Siemens PCI card CP-5613 for communicating with the PLCs.
>
> As you might have guessed, I'm new to researching EPICS-type info. and somewhat green with Profibus in general.
>
> Any pointers, comments or suggestions greatly appreciated.
>
> Regards,
> Robby Tanner B.Sc. (EE), B.Sc. (Cmpt. Sci)
> Controls Engineer
> Canadian Light Source
> University of Saskatchewan
> 101 Perimeter Road
> Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
> Canada
> S7N 0X4
>
> Ph:   (306) 657-3582
> Fax:    (306) 657-3535
> http://www.lightsource.ca

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System