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Create a new device

To configure the communication device, go to [Tools] → [I/O Devices] or click the icon in the main menu. The ‘I/O Configuration’ dialog box will show up. Click on the [New Device] button.

I/O Device Name: Give a device name. This name will be used in the tag configuration window of the database accompanied by the ‘Station Name’.

Select a device type

After selecting the [OK] button on the previous step, the ‘Ethernet Communication Configuration’ dialog box will pop up as shown in the following picture.

Select ‘FUJI Micrex SX’ in the ‘Device Type’ dropdown menu, and configure the proper Ethernet communication parameters.

Note that the ‘FUJI Micrex SX’ driver supports TCP/IP protocol stack only.

Initialize the Tx Frame When Timeout Occurs: This option provides a safety solution for troubled communication. If this option was checked and a communication error occurred, the system would delete the remaining control frames (data transmit frames from Xpanel to PLC) which were not transmitted but queued in the communication buffer of Xpanel.

See the Communication Configuration section for more information.

Create a station

Move to the [Station] tab of the ‘Ethernet Communication Configuration’ dialog box and click [Add Station]. In this dialog box, all the connected PLC stations can be configured and registered to the Xpanel.

Station Name: Give a name to the PLC. This name will be used in the database window accompanied by the ‘Device Name’.

Station Type: Choose the type of connected PLC among the ‘NPL1L-ETn’.

Network ID: This field has no meaning in this driver (ignored during runtime).

Socket Port No: The socket port number should be matched with the [reference number of local port+251] or [reference number of local port+253]. The reference number of the local port is configured in DWin300 as shown in the following figure.

In this example, the socket port number should be 507(256+251) or 509(256+253)

16Bit Data Swap: This field has no effect.

32Bit Data Swap: This field has no effect.

Using Checksum: This field has no effect.

Comm. Error Message Pop Up: When this item is checked, Xpanel displays a communication error message box for every Rx and Tx error. Otherwise (unchecked), Xpanel does not display a message for communication errors. This message box will close automatically after a few seconds.

See the Communication Configuration section for more information about the remaining parameters.

RJ45 Connector

RJ45 Jack

Function

Support

Remark

Block Data Read

O

Block Data Write

O

String Real Tag

O

Word Swap

O

Dword Swap

O