LSIS XGT Series FEnet

Communication Setup: Xpanel

Create a new device

To create a new device, go to [Tools] → [I/O Devices] or click on the icon in the main toolbar.

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 network type

After selecting the [Ok] button on the previous step, the 'Ethernet Communication Configuration' dialog box will pop up as shown below.

In this window, select ‘LSIS XGT Series FEnet' in the 'Device Type’ dropdown menu and configure the remaining Ethernet communication parameters. See the Communication Configuration section for more information.

Create a station

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

Each field can be configured as follows:

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 ‘XGL-EFMT’ (no other type can be selected).

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

IP Address: Input the IP address of the PLC with a dotted-decimal format.

Socket Port No.: The socket number should be configured as 2005 for UDP and 2004 for TCP. Please verify your configuration (UDP or TCP) in the [Communication Port] setup tab.

UDP/IP Port: 2005
TCP/IP Port: 2004

16Bit Data Swap: This field has no effect.

32Bit Data Swap: This field has no effect.

Fixed XPANEL Socket Port/XPANEL Socket Port No.: If this option was checked, Xpanel will use only one port defined in the 'XPANEL Socket Port No.' field for connection with the PLC. Otherwise, Xpanel will change the port at every TCP connection or communication error.

This option is provided for Xpanel to deal with various TCP port management ways of PLC. Some PLCs have a limit on the number of TCP services. In that case, this option can be applied.

The default setting of this option is the unchecked state.

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.

Communication Setup: XG5000

The following image shows a screenshot of the ‘Network Manager’ of the XG5000 programming tool. This window can be activated from the menu through [Tools] → [Network Manager].

IP Address	Give the IP address of the PLC with a dotted-decimal format. This address has to be registered in the device configuration of XpanelDesigner as described before.
Subnet Mask, Gateway	Give the appropriate values which are provided by the network administrator of your system.
DHCP	Do not use this option. The Xpanel supports fixed IP address devices only.
Driver	Choose the ‘XGT server’ from the dropdown menu.

Address Notation

The address of a tag in Xpanel has the following format.

Tag Type	Format	Example
Analog	[Symbol][Address]	D064
Digital	[Symbol][Address].[Bit Number] or [Symbol][Address][Bit Number]	M012.A or M012A

Address: decimal number (0..65535)
Bit number: hexadecimal number (0..F)

The following table shows the list of devices that can be referenced in the Xpanel database.

Symbol	Description	Range(Word)	Word Notation	Bit Notation	Type	Access
P	I/O Relay	2048	P123	P123A	Bit/Word	R/W
M	Auxiliary Relay	2048	M123	M123A	Bit/Word	R/W
L	Link Relay	11264	L123	L123A	Bit/Word	R/W
K	Keep Relay	8192	K123	K123A	Bit/Word	R/W
F	Special Relay	2048	F123	F123A	Bit/Word	R
T	Timer (CV)	2048	T123	-	Word	R/W
C	Counter (CV)	2048	C123	-	Word	R/W
D	Data Reg	32768	D123	D123.A⁽¹⁾	Bit/Word	R/W
N	Comm. Data Reg	28763	N123	N123.A⁽¹⁾	Bit/Word	R/W

(1) When a 'D' or 'N’ register is referenced by a digital tag with bit notation, it cannot be written (read-only).

Support Function Table

The following table shows the list of functions that are supported by the ‘LSIS XGT Series Ethernet’ communication driver.

Function	Support	Remark
Block Data Read	O
Block Data Write	O
String Real Tag	O
Word Swap	X
Dword Swap	X

Block Data Read	This function makes it possible to read bulk data at once. It is applied when using the Recipe, Data Bridge, and Trends on the Xpanel.
Block Data Write	This function makes it possible to write bulk data at once. It is applied when using the Recipe, Data Bridge, and Trends on the Xpanel.
String Real Tag	It makes the device the serialized memory so you can communicate string data of Xpanel with PLC.
Word Swap	This function swaps bytes of all word- or double-word-sized data. It depends upon the 16Bit Data Swap configuration.
Dword Swap	This function swaps words of all double-word-sized data. It depends upon the 32Bit Data Swap configuration.