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Subject: Re: Ethernet/IP Device Support and CompactLogix
From: Carl Cork <[email protected]>
To: EPICS Tech-Talk <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 06 Apr 2006 09:17:26 -0700
According to CIP Protocol Ed. 2.2 (Dec 2005), C-5.2.6 String Encodings:

a SHORT_STRING consists of a 1-Byte character count followed by count
characters (1 byte per character). Therefore, the Product Name attribute
field should have a maximum length of 33 bytes.

John Dobbins wrote:
Kay,

Actually, it looks like there may be another interpretation. The product name is defined as (DeviceNet?) type SHORT_STRING. I don't know where this is defined but it looks like it may be: "a single byte length field and 'n' data bytes".

In which case the Product Name is being returned inside a longer field. The Product Name is less than 32 characters but the data field it is returned in is longer than 32 bytes.

EIP_check_interface() rejects the product name because is finds the length of the data returned >32, even though the string length is less than 32.

John

Kay-Uwe Kasemir wrote:

On Apr 6, 2006, at 10:22 , John Dobbins wrote:
I just found in Volume I : CIP Common Specification, Release 1.0, page 5-10

"Product Name:
This text string should represent a short description of the product/product family represented by the product code in attribute 3. The same product code may have a variety of product name strings. The maximum number of characters in this string is 32."

Excellent, so now you can sue the makers of ControlLogix for violating the spec ;-)

How _did_ you get a copy of the updated specs?

-Kay




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