Design Guide
COMX Communication Modules
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Table of Contents
1 Introduction.............................................................................................................................................4
1.1 About this Document......................................................................................................................4
1.2 Comparison COMX and COM Modules.........................................................................................5
1.3 List of Revisions .............................................................................................................................6
1.4 Technical Features.........................................................................................................................7
1.5 Module Names ...............................................................................................................................9
1.6 References to Documents............................................................................................................10
1.7 Legal Notes ..................................................................................................................................11
1.7.1 Copyright ......................................................................................................................................... 11
1.7.2 Important Notes............................................................................................................................... 11
1.7.3 Exclusion of Liability ........................................................................................................................ 12
1.7.4 Warranty.......................................................................................................................................... 12
1.7.5 Export Regulations .......................................................................................................................... 12
2 Design-In - Mechanical Aspects .........................................................................................................13
2.1 Type of COMX Modules...............................................................................................................13
2.2 Mechanical Dimensions ...............................................................................................................15
2.2.1 Common Mechanical Dimensions for COMX Modules.................................................................... 15
2.2.2 Mechanical Dimensions of COMX Modules .................................................................................... 15
2.3 Type of Connector........................................................................................................................25
2.3.1 Storage and Contact Reliability of Host-side Connector.................................................................. 27
2.4 Mounting of COMX Modules........................................................................................................28
2.5 Material Recommendation for the Faceplate ...............................................................................34
2.6 Designation of the COMX Module ...............................................................................................34
2.7 Meaning of the Address Switch ...................................................................................................34
2.7.1 PROFIBUS DP Slave ...................................................................................................................... 34
2.7.2 CANopen Slave............................................................................................................................... 35
2.7.3 DeviceNet Slave.............................................................................................................................. 35
2.7.4 CC-Link Slave ................................................................................................................................. 36
2.7.4.1 COMX 10CA-CCS and COMX 10CN-CCS....................................................................... 36
2.7.4.2 COMX 50CA-CCS ............................................................................................................ 37
3 Design-In - Electrical Aspects.............................................................................................................39
3.1 Host Interface...............................................................................................................................39
3.1.1 Host Interface Overview: Dual-Port Memory Sizes and Modes....................................................... 39
3.1.2 Host Interface: Parallel or serial Dual-Port Memory Mode............................................................... 40
3.1.2.1 COMX 50 and COMX 100 ................................................................................................ 40
3.1.2.2 COMX 10 and COMX 51 .................................................................................................. 40
3.1.3 COMX Pinning of the System Bus Connector X1 – Parallel Mode.................................................. 41
3.1.4 COMX Pinning of the System Bus Connector X1 – Serial Mode..................................................... 43
3.1.5 PAD Type Explanation .................................................................................................................... 44
3.1.6 Signal Overview and Pinning of the Fieldbus Connector X2 on COMX CN..................................... 46
3.1.6.1 Fieldbus Connector X2 for CC-Link Slave ........................................................................ 46
3.1.6.2 Fieldbus Connector X2 for CANopen-Master/-Slave ........................................................ 47
3.1.6.3 Fieldbus Connector X2 for DeviceNet-Master/-Slave ....................................................... 48
3.1.6.4 Fieldbus Connector X2 for PROFIBUS-Master/-Slave...................................................... 49
3.1.6.5 Fieldbus Connector X2 for Real Time Ethernet ................................................................ 50
3.1.7 Common Signals of the Host Interface............................................................................................ 52
3.1.7.1 Power Supply of the COMX Modules ............................................................................... 52
3.1.7.2 RESET Signal................................................................................................................... 52
3.1.8 Signals of the Host Interface – Parallel Dual-Port Memory Mode.................................................... 52
3.1.8.1 The Dual-Port Memory Bus of COMX............................................................................... 52
3.1.8.2 Address Bus and Data Bus............................................................................................... 53
3.1.8.3 Dual-Port Memory Control Lines....................................................................................... 53
3.1.8.4 Interrupt Line to the Host System ..................................................................................... 53
3.1.8.5 BUSY Line to the Host System ......................................................................................... 54
3.1.8.6 Interfacing to the Dual-Port Memory for COMX ................................................................ 54
3.1.8.7 Timing Diagram parallel Dual-Port Memory Interface ....................................................... 55
3.1.8.8 Integration of COMX Module into a Host System ............................................................. 57
3.1.9 Signals of the Host Interface – Serial Dual-Port Memory Mode ...................................................... 58
3.2 Fieldbus Interface.........................................................................................................................59
3.3 LEDs.............................................................................................................................................60
3.4 Diagnostic Interface .....................................................................................................................62
3.4.1 Diagnostic Interface RS232C .......................................................................................................... 62
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3.4.2
Diagnostic Interface USB ................................................................................................................ 63
3.5 SYNC Signals ..............................................................................................................................66
4 Technical Data ......................................................................................................................................67
4.1 Product Tests ...............................................................................................................................68
4.1.1 COMX 10CA-CCS........................................................................................................................... 68
4.1.2 COMX 10CN-CCS........................................................................................................................... 68
4.1.3 COMX 10CA-COS........................................................................................................................... 68
4.1.4 COMX 10CN-COS .......................................................................................................................... 69
4.1.5 COMX 10CA-DPS ........................................................................................................................... 69
4.1.6 COMX 10CN-DPS........................................................................................................................... 69
4.1.7 COMX 10CA-DNS........................................................................................................................... 70
4.1.8 COMX 10CN-DNS........................................................................................................................... 70
4.1.9 COMX 50CA-REFO ........................................................................................................................ 70
4.1.10 COMX 50CA-CCS ........................................................................................................................... 71
4.1.11 COMX 51CA-RE ............................................................................................................................. 71
4.1.12 COMX 100CA-CO ........................................................................................................................... 71
4.1.13 COMX 100CA-DN ........................................................................................................................... 72
4.1.14 COMX 100CA-DP ........................................................................................................................... 72
4.1.15 COMX 100CA-RE ........................................................................................................................... 72
4.1.16 COMX 100CN-CO ........................................................................................................................... 73
4.1.17 COMX 100CN-DN ........................................................................................................................... 73
4.1.18 COMX 100CN-DP ........................................................................................................................... 74
4.1.19 COMX 100CN-RE ........................................................................................................................... 74
5 Appendix ...............................................................................................................................................75
5.1 List of Tables................................................................................................................................75
5.2 List of Figures...............................................................................................................................77
5.3 Contacts .......................................................................................................................................78
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1 Introduction
1.1 About this Document
COMX means Communication M odules netX . These modules provide a universal and easy to use
fieldbus interface for integration on various host systems. Through the set of standard application
interfaces and the same board dimensions in each COMX family it is easy to switch between the
different fieldbus systems, e.g. PROFIBUS DP, CANopen, DeviceNet, CC-Link or Ethernet by
changing the module.
This manual describes only the hardware part of the modules.
The COMX communication modules is a generation of Modules and offer beside fieldbus communication also Real-Time Ethernet communication. The application interface is different (not compatible) compared to COM Modules. The application interface of the COMX Modules is common to
all our COMX communication modules, and PC cards CIFX and netJACK communication modules
described in our toolkit manual, dual-port memory interface manual and the Real Time Ethernet
respectively fieldbus related details are defined in our Protocol API Manuals.
COM Modules are the previous generation of communication modules. The COM Modules are described in an own manual. The following two tables give a comparison of both COM and COMX
Modules.
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1.2 Comparison COMX and COM Modules
Basic differences between COM and COMX
COM COMX
Processor EC1 netX
Host Interface 8 Bit 8 / 16 Bit
Dual-Port Memory size 2 KByte or 8 KByte 8 KByte or 16 KByte
See section Host Interface Overview: Dual-Port
Memory Si
USB Interface No Yes
Table 1: Basic differences between COM and COMX
Comparison of supported protocols for COM and COMX
COM COMX (in this manual)
AS-Interface Master supported CANopen Master supported supported
CANopen Slave supported supported
CC-Link Slave supported supported
DeviceNet Master supported supported
DeviceNet Slave supported supported
InterBus Slave supported not supported by netX technology
PROFIBUS DP Master supported supported
PROFIBUS DP Slave supported supported
PROFIBUS MPI supported supported
sercos II (second generation) supported not supported by netX technology
EtherCAT Master - supported
EtherCAT Slave - supported
EtherNet/IP Scanner (Master) - supported
EtherNet/IP Adapter (Slave) supported supported
Open Modbus/TCP supported supported
POWERLINK Controlled Node - supported
PROFINET IO RT Controller - supported
PROFINET IO RT Device - supported
sercos Master (third generation) - supported
sercos Slave (third generation) - supported
VARAN Client (Slave) - supported
Table 2: Comparison of supported protocols for COM and COMX
zes and Modes on page 39.
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1.3 List of Revisions
Rev Date Name Chapter Revision
13 2011-09-30 HH
14 2011-10-05 HH
15 2012-03-22
New Protocols: VARAN Client (Slave), PROFIBUS MPI
2.2.2
2.7
3.1.2 Section Host Interface: Parallel or serial Dual-Port Memory Mode added
3.1.3
3.1.4
3.1.6.1 Section Fieldbus Connector X2 for CC-Link Slave added
3.1.8.7
3.1.9
3.2 Section Fieldbus Interface added
4.1 Section Dual-Port Memory Size added
4.1 Section Product Tests COMX 10xx-xxx and COMX 50CA-REFO added
16 2012-07-11 RG 4
17 2013-07-17 RG
18 2013-12-02 RG/HH COMX 51CA-RE added.
3.1.1
3.1.6.5 Typo corrected to J8064D628ANL.
3.1.8.5 Added information that the important note not is valid for COMX10/COMX51
3.1.8.7 Table 37: Symbols for COMX Timing Diagram for Read and Write Access :
3.5 Update of section “SYNC Signals ”
4.1.11 Added new EMV data section for COMX 51CA-RE
Table 3: List of Revisions
HH
MP
2.2.2
2.5
4
4.1.15
Section Mechanical Dimensions of COMX Modules: up
(Correction dimension from 5,08 to 2,54), updated to M1100052
Section Meaning of the Address Switch add
Meaning of LEDs moved to ‘comX User Manual’.
Section Timing Diagram parallel Dual-Port M
gram updated, Timing values for COMX 100, COMX 50 and common values
added (Table 37).
COMX 10CA-DPS, COMX 10CN-DPS, COMX 10CA-DNS,
COMX 10CN-DNS, COMX 10CA-COS, COMX 10CN-COS,
COMX 10CA-CCS, COMX 10CN-CCS, COMX 50CA-REFO
communication modules added
Section Mechanical Dimensions of COMX Modules: up
M1100121 added, M1100131 added, updated to M0900164, updated to
M0600174
Section Meaning of the Address Switch : Sections PROFIBUS DP Slave ,
CANopen Slave, DeviceNet Slave a
10CN-CCS added
New: Serial dual-port memory mode (for COMX 10)
Section COMX Pinning of the System Bus Connector X1 – Parallel Mode :
- COMX
- Symbol names for signals with new convention used (DPM_...).
- Information about PAD type added
Section COMX Pinning of the System Bus Connector X1 – Serial Mode for
COMX 10
Section Timing Diagram parallel Dual-Port Memory Interface: COMX
values added (Table 37).
Section Signals of the Host Interface – Serial Dual-Port Memory Mode
add
Current consumption values of COMX 10xx-xxx and COMX 50CA-REFO
updated
Section Mechanical Dimensions of COMX Modules : up
M0600175.
New section Material Recommendation for the Faceplate a
Operating conditions for COMX 100CA-RE for revision 8 updated.
EMC data COMX 100CA-RE for revision 8 updated.
Section Dual-Port Memory Size moved and expanded to Host Interface
Overview
Added column for COMX 51,
updated some values for COMX 10 (t
10
added
ed
: Dual-Port Memory Sizes and Modes .
nd COMX 10CA-CCS and COMX
ed
emory Interface: Timing Dia-
to t5 ) and in column “Common”
3
dated to M1100042
dated to M0300636,
10
date of M0600174 to
dded.
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1.4 Technical Features
Common Technical Features for COMX
All leading Fieldbus and Real Time Ethernet Protocols available as Master and Slave
One common hardware for all Real Time Ethernet Protocols
Easy to use dual-port memory interface, with additional serial and diagnostic interface
USB or serial diagnostic interface at COMX
Host interface is designed for 8 KBytes (COMX 10) and for 16 KByte (COMX 50 and COMX
100) address space of the dual-port memory with selectable bus width of 8 or 16 bit.
3.3 V power supply reduces power consumption
Small footprint for the host connector with 50 mil grid
Solid mechanical assembly and a massive connection to earth ground by metal blocks spe-
cial design for the requirements of the modules with fieldbus connector
Two dowels for exact mounting of the module on the host board
Metal blocks can easily modified for special customer requirements
Front panel can be mounted on the metal blocks that the modules have always the same
front size and covers the fieldbus connector
Many modules are available in extended temperature specification (operating temperature
range -20°C … +65°C)
COMX 10 modules have address switches to set the bus address
COMX 10 and COMX 51 modules offer a serial dual-port memory mode as interface to the
host
CA and CN Types of COMX Modules
For the COMX family, Hilscher offers modules with angled and without fieldbus connectors:
COMX 10CN and COMX 100CN
COMX Modules without fieldbus respectively Ethernet connector
COMX 10CA, COMX 50CA, COMX 51CA and COMX 100CA
COMX Modules with angled fieldbus, Ethernet respectively fiber optics connector
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Description of COMX Modules
All COMX have a powerful processor and a complete fieldbus respectively Real-Time Ethernet interface including isolated drivers and the connector according to the standard.
All boards require only a single stabilized 3.3 Voltage. All other voltages are created by DC/DC
converter on the COMX Module.
The access to the COMX Module is through the dual-port memory which can be easily integrated
as a static memory device. It has a non multiplexed 8 or 16 bit data bus with several control lines to
the host system. Between the COMX Module and the host system it is possible to generate interrupts for data handling.
Generally the firmware and the configuration data are stored permanently in FLASH memory by
loading the data through the dual-port memory.
Figure 1: Block Diagram of the COMX Modules
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