ibaFOB-SD Manual
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Introduction
5.1
Application
The ibaFOB-SD card couples the iba Process Data Acquisition system ibaPDA or the
Soft PLC ibaLogic with the Siemens control system SIMADYN-D. Therefore, the iba-
FOB-SD must be connected to one of the free fiber optic links of the SIMADYN-D
CS12/13 or 14.
By means of the Siemens interface board CP53M0 the ibaFOB-TDC card can be con-
nected with the SIMATIC TDC control system without the need for a GDM.
This new PCI card replaces the “old” ISA card ibaFOB-x/2 SD.
All component parameters are 100% controlled by software. No wiring or jumpering is
necessary for that board.
5.2
Characteristics
The card has the following characteristics:
Fully compliant PCI V2.2 board
1 bi-directional fiber optic channel with 96 Mbit/s
256 kB of PCI dual port-RAM for PC access
Firmware upgrade in the PC via PCI bus without de-installing the card
3 LEDs for each channel indicating CPU life counter (green), optical transmission
status (orange) and processor error (red)
7-segment display for board-ID, indication of sync master board and external or
internal synchronization
No Jumpers or DIL switches, all parameters are software controlled (the switch
on top of the board is for iba internal use only)
Dynamic reassigning of interrupt sources and interrupt generation (board and
driver synchronization)
Absolutely noise free acquisition of process data
100% functional compatibility with predecessor board ibaFOB-x/2 SD (ISA) guar-
anteed
Enhanced SIMADYN-D system diagnostics
Up to 4 ibaFOB-SD cards per PC
Plug and Play installation
5.3
Operational modes
The following operational modes are supported by ibaFOB-SD:
ibaPDA-lite-SD-TDC:
4 cards with max. 512 analog plus 512 binary values are supported by this soft-
ware; supports the ibaPDA-Technostring (a non-structured ASCII string) via the
SD link.