SattBus Ethernet OPC Server - KEPServerEX OPC Servers

Overview

The SattBus Ethernet Device Driver was designed specifically for use with 32 bit server products and the Windows NT/2000/XP operating systems running on Intel microprocessor based computers. It is intended for use with Sattcon devices communicating via the SattBus Ethernet interface.

A standard Ethernet interface is used as the hardware for connecting PC's to a SattBus system with Ethernet capability.

Kepware's SattBus Ethernet OPC Server is intended for use with Sattcon devices communicating via the SattBus Ethernet interface.

Devices

Supported Devices

Device	Note
SattCon 200
SC05-25SB
Any device that supports the application protocol "SattBus" and has the SattBus Ethernet interface/module present will be supported.

Features

Specific Driver Features

Specific

Overlapping Address Option.
Supports Register Memory access
Support I/O Bit access
Support I/O byte access
Support Memory Cell access

General

Multi-threaded design for optimum performance.
Application Connectivity
Device Connectivity for concurrent devices.
Supports running as a Windows NT Service.
Supports Direct Scaling of device data.
Full Time On-line operation.
CSV file import and exportof server tags.
User Management
Tag Management
Network Interface Selection
Channel Diagnostics provide real-time data.
OPC Diagnostics to view OPC events.
Modem support for all serial drivers.
OPC Quick Client application.
Visual Basic OPC Client with VB Examples.

OPC/DDE

OPC Data Access Version 1.0a
OPC Data Access Version 2.05a
OPC Data Access Version 3.0

Learn more about OPC - Open Process Control

HMI/Client

KEPServerEX has been enhanced to provide the widest range of connectivity of any server product available. KEPServerEX supports the following client server technologies:

FastDDE for Wonderware
SuiteLink for Wonderware
iFIX PDB for Intellution
DDE Format CF_Text
DDE Format AdvancedDDE

To see a list of HMI's and Clients that we support go to our HMI / Client Support page.

Required

Required Software and Hardware

Supported Operating Systems

Windows NT
Windows 2000
Windows Server 2003
Windows XP

PC Hardware

Minimum

400 Mhz Pentium CPU
128 Megs of RAM
100 Megs of Free Hard Drive Space

Recommended

600 Mhz Pentium CPU
512 Megs of RAM
100 Megs of Free Hard Drive Space

Hardware Requirements

For Device and Hardware Requirements see the Devices tab.
Hardware Accessories

Protocol

Communication Protocol

SattBus (UDP over Ethernet)

VB

Visual Basic

KEPServerEX Visual Basic OPC Client
Complex and Simple Visual Basic OPC Client Examples
Using Modems and Visual Basic with KEPServerEX.
Download the Modem and VB Example with Source Code
Knowledge Base

Help

Help/Links

Revisions

SattBus Ethernet OPC Driver Revisions

Driver updates below coincide with Server Release V4.280.435.0 (04/30/08)

SattBus Ethernet (V4.30.44.0)

- Fixed tag quality flicker (good/bad) issue when the PLC is power cycled and there are multiple servers communicating with the PLC.
- Fixed issue where on a power cycle of the PLC, the driver would immediately fail a read with the message "Device Not Responding" without waiting for the user set timeouts.
- Added the ability for users to configure the block request size associated with reading data from the device.

Driver updates below coincide with Server Release V4.270.416.0 (09/27/07)

All Drivers

- Fixed issue where server menu buttons like 'New', 'Open', 'Exit' would become permanently disabled when attempting to perform auto tag generation on a driver that had missing runtime dependencies.
- Fixed issue that could occur when multiple items with the same scan rate are read by exception and another item is added/asynchronously read/removed at that same rate. This issue resulted in stale data for those tags read by exception.

SattBus Ethernet (V4.20.39.0)

- Fixed issue binding to a Network Adapter other than Default.
- Added support to access memory cell type tags on non-byte boundaries.
- Added ability to read/write memory cell BYTE/WORD tags in different bit order formats.
- Fixed resource leak issue when cleaning up a socket connection to the device.
- Fixed issues where the driver would not behave as expected upon communications errors.

Driver updates below coincide with Server Release V4.264.401 (06/01/07)

All Drivers

- Fixed issue in the driver library where it was possible to delete a tag prior to stopping it. This would result in the accessing of invalid memory which could eventually result in an exception that would prevent a channel from processing any tags.

Driver updates below coincide with Server Release V4.210.367 (11/17/06)

All Drivers

- Fixed issue where a rapid sequence of item add, sync read, and item remove requests could result in bad OPC quality for some items included in a block sync read and/or sync read timeouts.
- Fixed issue with Unsolicited UDP Mode Ethernet Encapsulation mode, where driver would stop receiving unsolicited messages after sending a message.

Driver updates below coincide with Server Release V4.201.359 (07/19/06)

SattBus Ethernet (V4.10.31)

- Fixed write issue with 32 bit (RD) registers.
- Fixed read issue on multiple devices when overlapping is turned off on both.
- Fixed read issue on 32 bit tags that are mapped to same address but use different data types.
- Fixed issue where communications would not recover after disconnecting the cable to a physical device if it was referenced by multiple devices in the project.

Driver updates below coincide with Server Release V4.110.270 (3/22/04)

All Drivers

- Library fix affecting all drivers.

Driver updates below coincide with Server Release V4.106.269 (3/11/04)

SattBus Ethernet (V4.00.08)

- New Driver