FEATURES & RESOURCES

  • Key Features
  • Standard Features
  • Advanced Features
  • Device Support
  • Protocols / Networks
  • Available Languages
  • Videos & App Notes
  • Help Files & Release Notes
  • Technical Blog
  • Additional Resources

User Configurable (UCON) Key Features Include

  • Maximum Number of Channels & Devices: 
    • Channels - 256
    • Devices per Channel - 256
    • NOTE: Practical channel/device limits will vary depending on your available system resources and communications architecture
  • Make device data available to any OPC Client
  • No programming experience needed
  • Create unique Serial and Ethernet communications drivers
  • Supports both Numeric and String-based Device ID fields
  • Supports Solicited and Unsolicited Serial and Ethernet communications
  • Full scaling capabilities built-in
  • Menu driven protocol development
  • Automatically generated OPC tags based on the UCON Device Profile you've configured

Standard User Configurable (UCON) Features Include

User Configurable (UCON) Advanced Features Include

  • Automatic Tag Generation
  • Supports Ethernet Encapsulation
  • Supports dialup modem features for serial device connections
  • Supports direct scaling of device data, which allows raw device data to be converted to engineering units for OPC client applications
  • Error detection possible with a range of defined checksums, CRCs, LRCs and other algorithms as required by your specific protocol.
  • Conditional commands for advanced processing of device responses based on defined conditions.

Supported Devices Include (Don't See Your Device Listed? Contact Us)

  • Barcode readers
  • Scales
  • Gauges
  • More - Just about anything that supports a Serial or Ethernet connection with protocol documentation available (subject to complimentary protocol review to confirm compatibility)

Supported Protocols / Networks

  • Protocols:
    •  User Configured with the U-CON driver's Transaction Editor - a menu-driven interface that allows the configuration of read and write transactions to establish communications with the device.
    • Must have some form of documentation of the require command and/or response syntax for the device communications protocol
  • Networks:
    • TCP/IP Ethernet
    • Serial RS-232 / 422 / 485
    • Ethernet Encapsulation

Available Languages

  • English

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TOP Server How-To Videos and Application Notes

To insure you get the most from your investment in TOP Server™, we provide a variety of application notes/guides and how-to videos, since we know that sometimes it helps to see someone showing you how to do things.

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