Modicon® Modbus® ASCII Device Driver
Kepware's 32 bit Modbus® ASCII device driver works in conjunction with KEPServerEX, to provide data exchange between OPC Clients and Modbus® ASCII protocol compliant PLCs and Devices. Data integrity is insured with the extensive error handling of KEPServeEX.

This driver is part of the KEPServeEX Modbus® OPC Server Suite. Purchasing either the Modbus® RTU serial, Modbus® RTU Slave serial, Modbus® ASCII serial, Modbus Plus™ (SA85), or the Modbus® Ethernet TCP driver entitles you to all five drivers.

OPC Features Include:

• Supports OPC 1.0 and 2.0 Data Access Specifications

• Multi-threaded design insures optimum performance.

• Supports up to 16 concurrent serial port and PC card configurations.

• Full Time On-line operation allows on the fly changes

• Build Diagnostic system with protocol display

• Dialup Modem support included on all Serial Port Drivers.

• CSV file import and export of Server Tags for easy configuration on large projects.

• Includes OPC 2.0 Automation Interface and comprehensive Visual Basic examples.

DDE Features Include:

• AdvancedDDE Supports RSView32 and Cimplicity

• FastDDE & SuiteLink Support Wonderware FactorySuite 2000

• CF-TEXT Supports all DDE aware applications

• NetDDE Supports shared network access to device data

Devices Supported:

• Modbus® ASCII Multi-drop Supported

• Any Modbus® ASCII Compliant PLC

• Any Device Supporting Modbus® ASCII

• Full Address Range Support ( 0 - 65535 )

• User Definable Read Block Sizes

• Adjustable Address Base ( 0 or 1 )

• Word Order Swapping for Floating Point and Longs

• RTU Functions used: 01, 02, 03, 04, 05, 06, 16

• Direct Support of Flow Automation flow computers

• All memory types and data types supported