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FINS Omron Messaging on TCP/IP

The OMRON PLCs C, CV and CS series use TCP/IP for communication on Ethernet. The
messaging used is FINS (Omron application layers). All layers produced for this protocol
can therefore be represented according to the following OSI model :

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The Transport TCP and Network IP layers allow the communication, i.e. the data transport
between the various peripherals presents on the network (PLCs, sensors, devices…).

The application layer, here the FINS messaging, defines the data format of exchanges.

The FINS protocol authorizes a frame length of 1534 bytes. However, the size of the frames
carried on the network can be limited to a smaller size depending on the path taken in
the OMRON network architecture to access this device :

" TCP/IP : 1534 bytes.

" Sysmac Net: 1534 bytes.
" Controller Link: 542 bytes.

The FINS messaging on applicom® interface handles exchanges in the Omron architectu-
re with PLC couplers such as:

System Range Ethernet driver

Sysmac C200 HX, HG, HE, HZ C200 HW-PCU01
(Ethernet PCMCIA board: RJ45)
Sysmac CV2000-CPU01-EV1
Sysmac CV500-CPU01-EV1
Sysmac CV1000-CPU01-EV1
CV500-ETN01 (AUI interface)
Sysmac CVM1-CPU01-EV1
Sysmac CVM1-CPU11-EV1
sysmac CVM1-CPU21-EV1
Sysmac series CS1 CS1W-ETN01 (AUI interface)
Please contact us for other supported CPU/couplers..

The applicom® interface provides in standard the following functionality:

" Multi-request client mode to OMRON SYSMAC C, CV and CS, reading and writing

variables in the various PLC memory areas.

" Server mode for Omron SYSMAC CS PLCs, access to the applicom® database and devi-

ce monitoring.
The use of FINS messaging is available on applicom® interface simultaneously with the
other TCP/IP messagings from applicom® offer – TCP/IP multi-messagings –.

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Mode client
In client mode, the applicom® interface takes the communication initiative to the server
equipments.

The applicom® client mode can be used to send several requests simultaneously to an
equipment before having received the first response: this operation is called multi-
request.

To send several requests simultaneously, several connections are used. Each request is
sent on a virtual communication channel (UDP channel). The applicom® interface
manages 128 connections. Only 32 of them can be used simultaneously for all equip-
ments.

The applicom® interface can read and/or write major PLC data types thanks to applicom ®
library/DLL, DDE server, OPC server and ActiveX control:

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C serie
Device data type ® Input/ Hold Auxiliary Link Memory Timer/
Output Relay Relay Relay Data Counter
(Present value)
† Type applicom®
Bit CIO HR AR LR
Word (16 bit)
standard format
D, DM, E TC
BCD format
double word (32 bit) DD, DDM,DE
flotting word (32 bit)
IEEE format FD, FDM, FE

CV serie
Device data type® Input/ Memory
Timer Counter
Output Data

† applicom® Data
Bit CIO TN, G, A,
T C
ST
Word (16 bit)
Standard format
CIO D, DM, E, G, A PVT PVC
BCD format
Double word (32 bit) DCIO DD, DDM,
DE, DG, DA
Flotting word (32 bit)
IEEE format FCIO FD, FDM, FE, FG, FA

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CS serie
Device data type® Input/ Memory
Timer Counter
Output Data

† applicom® Data
Bit CIO HR, A, W T C
Word (16 bit)
" standard format CIO D, DM,
PVT PVC
" BCD format E, A, W
double word (32 bit) DCIO DD, DDM, DE, DA, DW
flotting word (32 bit) FCIO FD, FDM, FE, FA, FW
IEEE format

OMRON services supported for C, CV, CS series[1]

Equipment identification [1]:Only available via
Run applicom® library/DLL
Stop

Maximum number of variables per request with OPC server [2]

Variable type ® Read Write[3] [2]:Frame length of 1534
C, CV, CS series C, CV, CS series bytes setup in the appli-
Bit 2048 2048 com® configurator.
Word 765 763
double word 382 381 [3]:Maximum quantity
flotting word 382 381 in write is always 1 if
Timer/Counter 765 763 you are using PCDDE
application.

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SRTP Messaging - Client mode performance

The applicom® interface must provide feedback variables coming from

10 stations (Omron CS series) with a cycle time of 30ms. No inter-PLC
exchange is active.

Amount of data per station

3 tables of 765 words

1 table of 12240 bits

applicom® Data-Base retrieval time (out of application and scada) to

get data from 10 stations, i.e. 22950 words and 122400 bits, 40
requests are necessary:

with 1 simultaneous request by station

40 (requests) / 150 (requests /s)

= 0,267 second

with 2 simultaneous requests by station

40 (requests) / 260 (requests /s)

= 0,153 second

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Server Mode
The FINS server on applicom® interface provides, for client CS PLCs using Omron network
architecture, a database of 32K Words and 32K Bits.

With no prior configuration, the FINS clients have direct access to the applicom® database
by targeting the port number 9600 (UDP port) of the applicom® station. The access mode
is identical to that of an OMRON PLC.

This data base, called applicom® Data-Base , could be access in Read and Write modes.

applicom® Data-Base management for PLC clients

Supported FINS operations Type of data in
applicom Data-Base
Name Code Zone Type of data Max. number
Memory area read 0101h 00h bit area 1530
80h bit area 12240
82h word area 765
90h word area 765
Memory area write 0102h 80h bit area 12208
82h word area 763
90h word area 763

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The Omron server functionality on the applicom® database can be used to optimize infor-
mation feedback. Rather than permanently polling the equipments to monitor variables
which change status occasionally, the equipments can store the information to be feed
back in the applicom® database only on status changes (alarm feedback). This operating
mode results in:
" PLC processors less solicited.

" Network architecture less heavily loaded.

" Minimized information feedback time.

This principle can be made reliable by using a monitoring mechanism of PLC client
connections :

" You can define in the configurator a global maximum time between the accesses of
the client equipment to the applicom® Omron server. After this interval, the absence
is indicated to the application by an "ACCESS STATUS WORD" in the applicom® Data-
Base.

" Your application can read (or write to reset) a counter word which is located in the
applicom® Data-Base words area "ACCESS INDICATOR WORD" to inform about the
current number of writes made by the client device in the applicom® Data-Base.

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Diagnostics

The applicom® package includes, free of charge, a set of diagnostic tools to test your
communication without developing any kind of application.

Those tools are an essential help to valid the good running of your industrial commu-
nication. You can use them in the same time than your applications.

They are sorted in two categories:

Diagnostic tools for network analysis

Depending of the protocol used, thus on the transport type, these tools are specialised in
the network analysis. They inform you about the traffic and this in real time (load rate,
emitted requests number, flow / seconds...). Two modes are available : normal or advan-
ced.

The screen is displayed through a graphic tree representation. The object symbols inform
on equipment current state (connected, active, error, not configured...).

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Data access utilities

These utilities enable you to access in read and write modes to PLC data's and to appli-
com® Data-Base. Each access returns a status word and a text comment giving feedback
result.

You can used,constently, the applicom® diagnostic tools.These tools cohabit with your
applications

compatible applicom® board

ISA Bus PCI Bus PC/104 Bus
PCI2000ETH

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