Mitsubishi Electronics ETH-1000 manual

eth1000_large.jpg Using ICC E TH-1000 EtherNet/IP Interface w ith Mitsubishi i Q PLC[...]

i Contents Contents ..................................................................................................... .............................................................. i FURT HER READING REF ERENCE LI ST ....................................................................... ........................................ii Chapter 1 Intr[...]

ii FURTHER RE A DING REFE RENCE LIST ( Mitsub ishi Q Correspond ing MELSE C Comm unication Protocol R eference Manua l SH(NA)-08000 8-K QnUCPU Us er’s Manual C ommunic ation via Built-in Ether net Port SH(N A)-080811ENG-B Q Correspond ing Ethernet I nterface Modul e User’s Ma nual (Basic) SH ( NA)-0800 09-N ICC Instruction Ma nual: ETH -1000 Mu[...]

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1-1 Chapter 1 Introduction This document provides instruc tions and ex amples on how t o configure a s y stem c onsists of Rockwell ControlLogix PLC, an ICC ET H-1000 Gat eway, and Mitsubish i iQ PLC s y stem . An Example of the system configurat ion is shown in Fi gure 1 below. EtherNet/ I P M C Prot ocol G at eway Et h er net N etwork Switch R oc[...]

2-1 Chapter 2 System Overview A Verification Sy stem is used as a test bed for verif ying th e s teps docum ented i n this Q uick Start gu ide. The Verification System is s hown in Figure 2 be low with the IP address ass ignments of al l the devices. Netgear Switch Monitoring Laptop 2 192.168.1.5 ControlLogix 192.168.1.30 ICC 192.168.1.102 iQ (Buil[...]

3-1 Chapter 3 Connecting Devices to the Network The steps of configuring th e IP addresses of the ControlLo gix PLC system , the ICC ETH -1000 module, an d the PLC are doc umented in th is chapter. 3.1 Changing th e IP Address of the ControlL ogix System The minimum c onfiguration of a ControlLogix syst em consists of a ControlLogix c hassis ( e.g.[...]

3-2 4. Right-Click on the ENBT M odule and se lect “Module C onfiguration” from the drop down list: 5. Under the “P ort Configur ation” tab, se lect the Net work Configurati on Type to be “Static”, and o ne can m odify the IP ad dress and the Ne twork Mask to the desired values. Click “OK” and sa ve t he new IP ad dress configuratio[...]

3-3 6. Once the n ew IP addres s is set, it is very likely (depending on what IP address and Net work m ask were as signed to the E NBT m odule) that the C onfiguration PC wi ll no longer be abl e to comm unicate with the ENBT module. The IP a ddress of the Conf iguration P C will need to be changed to be in the sam e subnet of the ENBT m odule bef[...]

3-4 2. Click the “Auto Connec t” button, and the ETH- 1000 m odule wil l be con nected, and the screen will be populat ed with the cur rent information: The proper devic e type is sho wn with a green LED lit showing the co nnection has been established. The f irmware type, version, and Database t ype are als o shown on the sc reen. 3. The user [...]

3-5 5. After the do wnload, the s ystem wi ll need to be reset fo r the changes to take ef fect. Click “Y es” to the pop-up m essage and the ETH-1000 will go through the r eset sequence 6. After the ET H-1000 system reboot, the screen sho uld show the ne w I P address . In th is example, the IP addres s was change d to 192.168.5.1 90. 1 Introdu[...]

3-6 3.3 Changing th e IP Address es of the iQ PLC Built-in Ethern et Port The f ollowing are steps to c hange the IP a ddress of the iQ PLC Built-in Ethernet Port: 1. Open the GX W orks2 on the C onfiguration PC a nd c reate a ne w pr oject for the appro priate CPU Module (e.g. Q 13UDEH in t his example). 2. Select th e PLC Parameter on the Project[...]

3-7 c. Click the O pen Sett ing box and enter the first channel as MC Protoc ol wi th a pr oper Hos t Station Por t number (In th is example, the Port Number is set at Hex 5001) 3. Download th e param eter settings to the PLC . 1 Introduction 2 System Overview 3 Devices to the Network 4 ControlLogix PLC Project Configuration 5 ETH-1000 Configuratio[...]

3-8 3.4 Configuring the External Eth ernet Mod ule in the iQ System W hen app lication requires, an external Ethern et module can be added to the system and comm unicating to the iQ CPU. This sect ion describes the co nfiguration of a QJ7 1E71-100 modu le to be used in the comm unication with a CLX through the ICC ETH-1000 gateway. 1. Select the Ne[...]

3-9 2. At the “Ethern et Operatio n Setting windo w”, one can config ure the IP addre ss of the Ethernet module. a. Set the Com munication Dat a Code to Binar y b. Check the “Enable Online Change” check box c. Select the “ Initial Tim ing” to be A lways wait f or OPEN (Com munication pos sible at ST OP time). T his is a c ritical step t[...]

3-10 3. At the Net work Parameter Setting window, click “Open Setting” a nd op en the wind ow be low a nd enter the par ameters as shown: a. Configure the Host Station Port Num ber to matc h the C onnection Object port number configured in the ICC ET H-1000.[...]

4-1 Chapter 4 ControlLogix PLC P roj ect Configuration The configuratio n s teps of a ControlL ogix pr oject are described this Chapter. T hese steps are us ed to comm unicate with an ICC ETH -1000 module. It is assum ed that the user has basic k nowledge in using RSLogix5000 software to perform the basic configurati on steps. 4.1 A dding the 1756 [...]

4-2 3. In the “Select Module” pop- up window, cho ose the “Com munications” 4. Then select th e proper m odule 1756 ENBT[...]

4-3 5. Then s elect the Major Revision level of the ENBT firm ware. In the Verification System, the m ajor revision le vel of the ENBT module is 2. 6. Enter the proper N ame, Slot Loc ation, Revis ion Level and IP Addr ess of the ENBT m odule. In the Verification System, the module nam e is set at CSC_EIP, the revision firm ware level is 2.3, the m[...]

4-4 7. Click “O K” to accept t he configurat ion and m ake no add itional conf iguration changes to the “Connection” t ab. Sim ply click “OK” again to accept the configuration. 4.2 A dding the ICC M odule The following st eps ar e us ed to add the I CC m odule f or c o mm unication us ing I/O Messag ing ( or Im plicit Messaging m ethod)[...]

4-5 2. Select the “C ommunicatio ns” and expa nd the tree for additional sel ection. 3. Choose the Ethernet-Mod ule Generic Ether net Module 1 Introduction 2 System Overview 3 Devices to the Network 4 ControlLogix PLC Project Configuration 5 ETH-1000 Configuration 6 Using EtherNet/IP Explicit Messaging 7 Terminology[...]

4-6 4. Double C lick on the se lection an d c onfigure the I CC module according ly. T his is a critica l configurat ion step to e nsure the ETH-1000 will w ork properly in the s ystem as the application requires. Please also cons ult the ICC ETH-1000 User ’s Man ual car efully a bout t he configur ation of these item s. a. Configure the “C omm[...]

4-7 5. Configure the RPI to 10.0 ms. 6. Select “OK” to accept the c onfiguration an d complete the ICC Module C onfiguration. 7. Double c lick on the “Co ntroller Tags ” selectio n, and the foll owing tags are a utomaticall y created f or the ICC ET H-1000 m odule: 1 Introduction 2 System Overview 3 Devices to the Network 4 ControlLogix PLC[...]

4-8 a. 248 integer tags were created f or CSC_ICC_ ETH1000_INT :I. T hese are the t ag locations where I CC will transfer the data to the Control Logix us ing Implicit Message protocol every RPI. b. 248 integer tags wer e crea ted for C SC_ICC_ET H1000_INT:O. T hese are the ta g locati ons where data will be sent to I CC ETH-1000 through Im plicit [...]

5-1 Chapter 5 ETH-1000 Configuration The s teps to configur e th e ETH-1000 m odule to work with the ControlLog ix PLC usin g Et herNet/IP Im plicit Messaging and Mitsubish i controllers usin g MC Proto col are docum ented. Configuring th e Validation System as sh own in Figur e 2 is used as the exam ple. Some param eters will n eed different va lu[...]

5-2 2. Select the EtherNet/IP tab of the ICC Co nfiguration sc reen an d define the IC C Database locations where dat a items w ill be exc hanged between the Co ntrolLogix PL C and th e ICC module throug h the Implicit Mess aging protoc ol. In this exam ple, the “Prod uce Data Start Address ” of the ICC m odule is set at Database Location 0 and[...]

5-3 The database addr esses in the ICC ar e us ed t o address “by te” data locat ions. Thus, 248 wor ds will take up 49 6 database addr esses. 3. Select the “M onitor” tab and c heck the “Dis play Usage ” c heckbox to sho w the DB m emor y loc ations that are conf igured for use by both the Pro duced and Consumed data . 5.2 Configuring [...]

5-4 2. Enter the IP address of the controller that will be co nnected. The IP is 192.16 8.1.40 for this exam ple 3. Enter the Port Number in d ecimal. T he Port is 20481 or 0x 5001 for this exam ple. 4. Hit “Create” af ter the inf ormation is entered a nd the Co nnection Object is shown as below. 5.2.2. Configu ring Service Obje cts In the Veri[...]

5-5 5. Enter th e Start ing Point of the Data Regist ers where the data items will be written into. In this exam ple, the Starting Poin t is “12268.” 6. Enter the n umber of words to b e transferr ed in the “Nu m W ords” dialog box. In this exam ple, the number of words is “20.” 7. Enter the Databas e Ad dress ( Database Addr.) of the I[...]

5-6 9. Repeat th e steps 1-8 to de fine the other three s ervice obj ects to perf orm the tran sfers between ICC and iQ PLC. a. Define the Service Object t o read 20 Data Registers to ICC b. Define the Service Object t o write 10 W ords to Internal R elay[...]

5-7 c. Define the Service Object t o read 10 words of Link Rel ay to ICC 1 Introduction 2 System Overview 3 Devices to the Network 4 ControlLogix PLC Project Configuration 5 ETH-1000 Configuration 6 Using EtherNet/IP Explicit Messaging 7 Terminology[...]

5-8 5.2.3. Configu ring the Connecti on Object for Q J71E71 Ethernet Modu le Repeat s teps docum ented in S ections 5.2. 1and 5.2.2 to conf igure the Co nnection and Service objects to comm unicate to the ext ernal Ethernet m odule in the system . 1. Creat a Connecti on Obj ect first with name Connection2. Enter the IP addr ess of the Ethernet modu[...]

5-9 5.2.4. Calculating the ICC ET H-1000 DB A ddres ses One of the m ost im portant steps in configuring a ser vice objec t is to determ ine t he Databas e Addres s that n eeds to be entered. Since the ICC ET H-1000 DB is a “shared databas e” bet ween Eth erNet/IP and MELSEC pr otocols, one has to def ine carefull y which wa y the d ata item s [...]

6-1 Chapter 6 Using EtherNe t/IP Explicit Messaging The ControlLogix PLC can com municate with the Mitsub ishi i Q PLC using E IP Explicit Messaging format through the ICC ETH-1000 gateway. The communication is accom plished throu gh the use of MSG instructions in RSLogix5 000. Ref er to Sections 11.1.4.5, 11.1.4. 6, 8.7.5.1 of the “ Ins truction[...]

7-1 Chapter 7 Terminolog y Implicit (I/O Data) Messaging Connecti ons are established to mo ve appli cation-specifi c I/O data at regular intervals. The se connect ions often are set up as one-t o-many rela tionships in order to tak e fu ll ad v antage of t he p roducer- consume r m ulticast mod el. Impli cit messagi ng uses UDP/ IP r esources to m[...]

Rev-1 Revisions July 2009 – Document c reated and Rel eased, Vers ion 1.0 October 20 09 – Minor revis ion to wording t hroughout t he docum ent, Version 1.1[...]