NetStaX EtherNet/IP Scanner Development Kit
Version 5.2
Version 5.2 – Now available
Now CT18 Conformant and enhanced with a CIP Security and CIP Safety Enablement option
Pyramid Solutions’ NetStaX™ EtherNet/IP™ Scanner Development Kit (ESDK) with Scanner Class Protocol Stack allows you to quickly introduce EtherNet/IP Scanner Class (Client / Originator) and/or Adapter Class (Server/Target) functionality to your products and systems. Outfitted with new CIP Security and CIP Safety options, developers can easier than ever ensure secure and fail-safe communications.
Our NetStaX EtherNet/IP Scanner Development Kit Protocol Stack provides I/O Client, I/O Server, Message Client, Message Server functionality, and an Application Programming Interface (API) for using Common Industrial Protocol (CIP) via TCP/IP. The ESDK Stack interfaces with your product’s application software and the socket level interface of your product platform’s compatible TCP/IP stack.
The ESDK Stack is capable of supporting CIP Security with the ESDK-SECURE option, which adds secure connections and encryption to the standard ESDK EtherNet/IP connections and messaging.*
The new ExDK-SAFETY option provides code compatibility for use in CIP Safety applications.**
Easily configure ESDK connections via your application code or through the network via the included Connection Configuration Object (CCO). Users can configure connections through network-connected configuration tools that support the CCO, such as Rockwell Software’s RSNetWorx™ for EtherNet/IP.
The ESDK Scanner Stack source code utilizes an object-oriented approach. ESDK building blocks, such as TCP/IP sessions, CIP connections, explicit requests, and all implemented CIP objects, including assemblies, are grouped into separate modules with corresponding functionality.
This makes the source code easier to understand and debug.
Components
- EtherNet/IP Scanner Class protocol stack ‘C’ source code, designed for rapid cross-platform portability and development
- ESDK Scanner DLL with C++ function call API, C# API for .NET applications, and a legacy COM API for using the ESDK stack with Windows™ and VB6 applications (32 and 64 bit DLLs included)
- Example Scanner Class Application code (executable and source) that demonstrates the use of the Scanner Stack APIs and functionality
- Application Notes with Code Samples for individual Stack features
- ESDK Getting Started and Porting Guide, and Software Reference Manual
- ESDK-SECURITY option required for CIP Security functionality
- ExDK-SAFETY option required for CIP Safety functionality
Features
- Version 5.2
- ODVA CT18 conformant
- Supports
- TCP/IP object revision 2
- Ethernet Link object revision 4
- “Big 12″ Diagnostics
- Identity object revision 2
- Added Identity object Catalog Number (21) and Manufacture Date (22) attributes as standard attributes
- SetIdentityExplicitProtectionMode API to allow the application to control the explicit Protection Mode
- Assembly object revision 3
- Full support for Dynamic assemblies
- Flexible so users can specify the number of connections, requests, etc. from build time parameters
- Includes sample STC file for ODVA Conformance Test
- ESDK-SECURITY feature updates
- ExDK-SAFETY option introduced as of v5.2
Compatibility
- Enables EtherNet/IP Scanner Class and/or Adapter Class functionality
- UCMM (unconnected) messaging client and server
- Class 3 (connected) messaging client and server
- Class 1 (I/O) connection client and server
- CIP Security*
Resource Utilization and Management
- All resources initialized at startup
- No dynamic memory or thread allocation
- The stack runs on a single thread
Platform, OS and TCP/IP Stack Compatibility and Portability
- “Platform files” separate single platform-specific routines for simple porting
- Useful in virtually all devices and environments including: Embedded: VxWorks, Linux, uC/OS, FreeRTOS, and many others, or No OS (timer tick), and PC based Linux and Windows (using the included 32 and 64 bit Windows compatible DLLs)
- Compatible with most TCP/IP stacks that provide reasonable Berkeley Sockets compatibility
- Stack core source is ‘C’ code for portability. Stack code is movable across platforms with little-to-no modification based on our Platform Files approach.
Supported/Included Objects and Features
- Message router
- Connection manager
- Port
- File object
- Ethernet link
- TCP/IP Rev 4
- Connection configuration object
- QOS
- DLR**
- CIP Sync***
- Assembly
- Identity (supports type 2 reset)
- Custom objects
- Modbus translator
- Class 0 support
- Energy object
- CIP Security*
*The ESDK-SECURE option requires a compatible SSL library that you supply
**ExSDK-SAFETY provides code compatibility to work with HMS/IXATT’s CIP Safety Stack, which must be licensed separately
***DLR object is for configuration only – DLR software and hardware not included
****CIP Sync object is for configuration only – IEEE 1588 stack not included
NetStaX is a trademark of Pyramid Solutions, Inc.
EtherNet/IP is a trademark of the ODVA
Windows is a trademark of Microsoft Corporation
