RickRios Posted November 25, 2023 Share Posted November 25, 2023 Morning. Folks! I have a brief consulting. May I to use FOUNDATION FIELDBUS in DAQFactory Pro applications? Thanks a lot, in advance for your kindness and courtesy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AzeoTech Posted November 25, 2023 Share Posted November 25, 2023 Most fieldbus protocols, by their name, are designed to allow field devices to connect to each other and not so much designed for a PC to connect to it. They usually have specialized hardware requirements and thus require a special card on the PC side. That card is typically proprietary, and as such does not follow a standard API, making it impossible to just say "we support Foundation Fieldbus". A very similar example is CANBus. That said, you can, technically use a DLL provided by the Foundation fieldbus PC card manufacturer within DAQFactory in most cases. You also may be able to go through a transport layer converter (i.e. Fieldbus to Ethernet or Serial), or even a protocol converter, or possibly an OPC server, or simply use a PLC that supports Foundation Fieldbus and then connect DAQFactory to that PLC using a more well known protocol like Modbus. Truthfully, in 30 years of automation software I have never heard of Foundation Fieldbus so it is either relatively new, only used on the field side (i.e. not connected to a PC), or just not that widespread so I can't offer much more. More common fieldbus protocols are things like EtherCAT (which runs on CAN) and of course CAN itself, Profibus and others. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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