Modicon® Modbus® TCP/IP Ethernet Driver
Kepware's 32 bit Modbus® TCP/IP Ethernet device driver works in conjunction with KEPServerEX, to provide data exchange between OPC Clients and Modbus® TCP/IP Ethernet protocol compliant PLCs.

Kepware's implementation of Modbus® TCP/IP Ethernet supports master and slave operations simultaneously. The slave mode allows the server to receive data by exception from other Modbus® TCP/IP Ethernet devices.

KEPServerEX automatically optimizes your data acquisition based on client demand. Data integrity is insured with the extensive error handling features of KEPServeEX.

The Modbus® TCP/IP Ethernet  driver now offers direct integration with Modicon® Concept™ and ProWORX™ programming packages. If you are using either of these packages you will be able to directly import the tags used in your PLC application directly into KEPServerEX. This time saving step makes all of the relevant PLC data available to your OPC client applications instantly. For details on Automatic Tag Database Generation, go here>

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® TCP/IP 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:

• Supports Multiple PLCs via IP addressing

• Supports Modicon® Ethernet to Modbus Plus™ bridging

• Supports Multiple or Single socket usage for better gateway resource management

• Supports Memory Accesses to 65535

• Hex Addressing Support (0-FFFF)

• User Definable Read Block Sizes

• Adjustable Address Base ( 0 or 1 )

• Word Order Swapping for Floating Point and Longs

• 0xxxx - Output Coils, 1xxxx - Input Coils, 3xxxx - Internal Registers, 4xxxx - Holding Registers

• All data types and arrays are supported

• Supports tag import from Modicon® Concept™ and ProWORX™ programming packages using Kepware's Automatic Tag Database Generation feature.