Illustration of RapID Platform Network Interface. Image credit: Analog Devices, Inc.
Analog Devices, Inc. has just announced the addition of POWERLINK, a real-time industrial Ethernet protocol, to its RapID Platform Network Interface. The network interface, developed by ADI's Deterministic Ethernet Technology Group (formerly Innovasic, Inc.), can be embedded into a field device application as a module, or completely embedded into its circuit card. POWERLINK operates as a Controlled Node (CN) and contains the POWERLINK object dictionary, with object ranges provisioned for both standardized device profiles and custom manufacturer configurations; this allows for easy customization representing all the data produced or consumed by an application.
