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1 INTRODUCTION
1.1Scope
This document is the User Manual for the Allen Bradley serial communication driver firmware for the Emerson DeltaV Control System; it provides information required to install, configure, and maintain the Allen-Bradley driver firmware on the DeltaV Programmable Serial Interface Card (PSIC). The reader should be familiar with the DeltaV controller system and the Allen-Bradley PLC-5 Family of Programmable Logic Controllers, the Allen- Bradley SLC-500 Family of Serial Logic and/or Controllers Allen-Bradley PLC-3 Family of Programmable Logic Controllers.
A DeltaV Programmable Serial Interface Card with the Allen-Bradley driver may communicate with the Allen-Bradley PLC-5 Family of Programmable Logic Controllers, the Allen-Bradley SLC-500 Family of Serial Logic Controllers and/or Allen-Bradley PLC-3 Family of Programmable Logic Controllers within the constraints delineated herein. In general for driver version 1.0, the Allen-Bradley family of SLC-500’s can communicate using the same command set used to communicate with the PLC-5 family. The SLC5/01 communicates via the PLC2 basic commands, so only file N9 can be accessed with the SLC5/01. For driver version 1.1, a specific command type was added to read/write SLC5/XX Input and Output tables. The previous release of the driver, version 1.4, expands on the SLC specific command to read/write all SLC tables. Additionally, this version allows you to select communications using Half Duplex/CRC. Note that the default is Full Duplex/BCC. This release, version 1.7, provides support for PLC-3 file read and write, and ControlNet extra hop addressing when using the Allen Bradley 1770-KFC15 gateway device.
The section Document Format briefly describes the contents of each section of this manual. System Specifications outlines hardware and software requirements for the Allen-Bradley Driver (P1.7) firmware. Related Documents lists other documents used to prepare this manual.
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