The BradCommunications™ Direct-Link™ is a range of automation components for industrial communication. It includes a variety of products such as diagnostic tools, intelligent connectors, tunneling gateways, dedicated fieldbus cards, and software drivers for industrial networks.
Simple as they are affordable, Direct-Link™ products allow you to acquire the equipment to develop your architectures and industrial applications at a lower cost.
The BradCommunications™ Direct-Link™ product line is characterized by its simple use and fast implementation. The solutions are modular and scalable. Moreover, the products are designed to be easily embedded in computerized systems and are available in a wide selection of form factors.
Particularly, the BradCommunications™ Direct-Link™ products are based on a non-intelligent 12 Mbps USB adapters that are especially designed to communicate with Siemens controllers and others compatibles devices set on a Profibus network. Direct-Link™ suits perfectly to applications requiring few CPU® resources (for more powerful data through and large application, see applicom product ranges).
Specifications:
- RoHS compliant
- Ready to plug, no hardware setting
- High Speed USB Adapter v2.0 & v1.1
- Profibus protocols managed simultaneously:
- Profibus DP-V0 Master/Slave
- Profibus DP-V1 Master
- S7/MPI Master for Simatic® S7 -300 and S7-400
- S7/MPI Slave for Simatic® S7-200
- S5 for Simatic® S5 (95U, 115U, 135U, 155U)
- Profibus speed: 9.6kbps
- Software Interfaces:OPC Server (Data Access v1.0a, v2.05 and 3.0)
- Wonderware DAServer
- Wonderware I/O Server (SuiteLink, FastDDE)
- ActiveX Control
- DLL library 32-bits
- VI ( Virtual Instruments for NI LabVIEW™)