Rather than mapping its well-established Profibus protocol into existing Ethernet protocols like TCP/IP and UDP/IP, Siemens instead decided to develop the protocol as an open and vendor-independent ...

DeviceNet, Foundation Fieldbus, Hart and Profibus protocols can handle a mix of device vendors, and all of these protocols have substantial user groups sharing information and contributing to the ...

“They don't want the system's main processor to get bogged down with protocol stacks when it should be doing other tasks that are mission critical to the application. With its 16-bit processor, the ...

The Profibus real-time frame handler, called the Fieldbus Data Link (FDL), is implemented utilizing the programmable real-time unit (PRU), which is one of the AM1810's on-chip peripherals. Multiple ...