REM Switch chip and RapID Platform support ModbusTCP

Innovasic has updated its fido5000 Real-time Ethernet, Multi-protocol (REM) Switch chip and the RapID Platform Network Interface solution to support ModbusTCP. The fido5000 REM Switch chip is configured via software driver as a ModbusTCP device and is claimed to support cycle times less than 500µs.The RapID Platform – ModbusTCP Network Interface is delivered as a module or embedded design that supports cycle times down to 1ms.

The fido5000 REM Switch chip provides two-port Ethernet connectivity for the ModbusTCP protocol using any processor hosting any ModusTCP stack.The RapID Platform – ModbusTCP Network Interface utilises the fido5000 REM switch to provide a host processor with a ready-to-use ModbusTCP device solution.This solution is said to support all the necessary function codes and the full 64K address space for all registers and coils.There is also an option to mirror the Input registers with the Holding registers for added flexibility.

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