Chapter 1 In troduction to Mo tion Control Operation 1.2 AH Motion System Configurations The AH Motion Contro ller series CPU basic configurations include the AH Motion Controller CPU Network Configuration , AH500 Series Module Configuration , and Supported Software . AH Motion Controller Network Configuration - AHxxEMC-5A 1_ You can use the EtherCAT master port built in on the CPU interface to connect to slave devices such as analog and digital I/O, servo drives, AC motor drives and encoder input devices. With EtherCAT network configuration, you can design a system capable of performing very accurate sequence and motion control in a fixed cycle.
AH500 Series Module Configuration With the motion backpl ane, you can also ad d AH500 series I/O modules* in addition to the EtherCAT network. AH500 series modules can be installed directly to the motion backplane where the CPU module is mounted. *Note: a fe w of AH500 ser ies I/O modules are not supported by the motion bac kplane. Refer to Ch2 System Configuration for the list of supported products. Supported Software ISPSoft is the major programming software that you use for an AH Motion Controller series. You can connect the software on the computer to the USB interface o n the CPU module through a commercially available USB cable.
You can also connect ISPSoft to the Ethernet port on the CPU module w ith an Ethernet cable or to the bui lt-in RS-485 port on th e Motion backplane with a RS -485 cable and a conv erting device, e.g. IF D6500 USB/RS-485 converter. In additio n to ISPSoft, you can also use other software for configuring various applications based on different networks. Support Software AH500 Series Module Configuration ISPSoft AH Motion CPU Power Supply AH I/O modules CPU USB(RS-232) CPU Rack LAN or EtherNet/IP AH MotionNetwork Configuration Bullt-In EtherCAT port EtherCAT Bullt-In E therNet/IP port Servo drives/encoder input slaves General-purpose slaves 1-3