Area of application

The CANopen OPC Server gives you quick and convenient access to CANopen devices with any kind of OPC clients. Intelligent CAN bus interfaces ensure the high-performance PDO and SDO data exchange according to the DS 301 communication profile (minimum capability device).

This Softing product offers the following advantages:

• Full OPC compliance
• Fast commissioning due to intuitive user guidance
• Automatic network scanning and detection of installed devices

• Import of configuration parameters from device description files (EDS, DCF)
• Node guarding with automatic reestablishment of connections
• Static and dynamic PDO mapping
• Graphically supported diagnostic functionality
• Supports the Softing CAN PC/104, PCI and PCcard cards
• Configuration file in XML format
• Supports all OPC client-enabled software incl. Citect, GE Cimplicity, GE Fanuc iFix, Iconics Genesis, Rockwell RSView, Siemens WinCC, Wonderware InTouch
• Supports a dynamic OPC namespace
• Complete OPC Client and OPC ActiveX controls with Excel, HTML and Visual Basic examples included in package

• PC (Intel single-processor system) with Windows NT/2000/XP
• Softing CAN PC/104, PCI or PCcard interface

• CD-ROM
• Online help and documentation in German and English

• OPC Toolbox ActiveX
• PCI (1 channel)
• PC/104 (1 channel)
• PC Card (2 channels)