Twido Overview

Communications Overview

Introduction
Twido bases have one, or an optional second, serial port that is used for real-time
or system management services.
Four types of communication can be used with Twido controllers:
z AS-Interface bus connection
z CANopen fieldbus connection
z Ethernet network connection
z Modem connection
The real-time services provide data distribution functions for exchanging data with
I/O devices and messaging functions for communicating to external devices.
System management services manage and configure the base through TwidoSuite.
Either serial port is used for any of these services but only serial port 1 is for
communicating with TwidoSuite.
To provide these services, there are three protocols available on each base:
z Remote Link
z Modbus
z ASCII
In addition, the TWDLCAE40DRF and TWDLCDE40DRF compact bases feature a
built-in RJ45 Ethernet communications port allowing to perform all real-time
communications and system management tasks via the network. Ethernet
communications implements the following protocol:
z Modbus TCP/IP

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