What's New in KAS v3.04

KAS v3.04 introduces the following new features.

Function Blocks

• New function blocks have been added for TCP/IP communication. See Search IndexTCP/IP Function Blocks for more information.
• The eipAdapter function block has been added to read adapter status bits.
• New file management function blocks have been created which run in background cycles. The existing file management function blocks have been deprecated. See File Management for more information.

Safety

The KAS IDE"Integrated development environment" An integrated development environment is a type of computer software that assists computer programmers in developing software. IDEs normally consist of a source code editor, a compiler and/or interpreter, build-automation tools, and a debugger now supports using a BBH FSoE Master and SafePLC with an AKD2G with SMM.

• Support for BBH SCU-1-EC.
• Ability to map read-only variables to FSoE PDO objects.
• Add, Delete, Import, and Export SafePLC projects from the KAS IDE.
• Launch SafePLC directly from the KAS IDE.
• SafePLC project files are stored in KAS projects.

KAS IDE WorkBench Improvements

• When connecting, the view now provides a status during communication initialization.
• Visual in-progress indicators for navigation and view loading.
• Optimized command grouping for communication performance.
• The KAS IDE WorkBench internal behavior parameters have been adjusted for best performance across EthernetEthernet is a large, diverse family of frame-based computer networking technologies that operate at many speeds for local area networks (LANs) with latencies up to 200 msec.

E-Bus I/O Support

• Support for the new Kollmorgen AKT2G E-Bus Coupler, Digital Input/Output Slices, and Analog Input/Output Slices.
• The IO tab views for the AKT2 I/O Slices support PLC"Programmable Logic Controller" A Programmable Logic Controller, PLC, or Programmable Controller is a digital computer used for automation of industrial processes, such as control of machinery on factory assembly lines. Used to synchronize the flow of inputs from (physical) sensors and events with the flow of outputs to actuators and events variable mapping. Presently, the basic digital and analog input/output variable mapping are supported with IO tab views. The Analog I/O views do not support offset and gain parameters yet.

Other Items

• DriveParamStrRead is added to read a drive parameter string, which is useful for AKD2G fault strings.
• Multi-select PDO objects for mapping to variables. See Map PLC Variable to PDO Object.
• PLCopenA vendor -and product- independent worldwide association active in Industrial Control and aiming at standardizing PLC file formats based on XML User Units Parameters: There are new axis parameter identifiers for the User Units (UU) numerator () and denominator (FBU):  MC_AXIS_PARAM_UU_FB_RATIO_NUM and MC_AXIS_PARAM_UU_FB_RATIO_DEN. Additionally, there is a new axis parameter to read the UU/FBU ratio - MC_AXIS_PARAM_UU_FB_RATIO. For more details, please see the table in Axis Parameters.
• Manually adding an EtherCATEtherCAT is an open, high-performance Ethernet-based fieldbus system. The development goal of EtherCAT was to apply Ethernet to automation applications which require short data update times (also called cycle times) with low communication jitter (for synchronization purposes) and low hardware costs device uses the latest revision by default.
• Auto-complete opening parentheses in the ST"Structured text" A high-level language that is block structured and syntactically resembles Pascal Editor.