The data interface HPCi Request is based on the licensed DGM200 communication hardware from GE Energy Power Conversion (ex. Converteam GmbH). HPCi Request provides comfortable access on all data in all HPCi stations connected to the DGM200 bus for measurement. This interface connection is available only for HPCi (P80i) systems for communication with the fast DGM200 bus.

Activation of DGM200P or DGM200E and HPCi Request licenses in the dongle as well as a DGM200P interface card or a DGM200E adapter installed in the ibaPDA computer are required for using the HPCi Request interface.

The hardware requirements are the same as for DGM200P or DGM200E (HPCi Lite); additionally a TCP/IP connection to all involved HPCi CPUs is required.

If the HPCi Request interface license is activated in the dongle, you may configure the following modules in ibaPDA:

  • HPCi Request

    • Access to all data of all connected HPCi stations on request (incl. KK'S)

    • Access to data of all time classes of the DGM200 bus

    • max. 1000 analog values + 1000 digital values per module

    • Comfortable data selection via signal browser in the ibaPDA I/O Manager (toc.ini required, created by P80i address book generator)

    • Comfortable data selection via drag & drop from P80i to ibaPDA (with the ibaPDA client on the same PC as P80i).

A maximum of up to 1024 modules are supported per interface.

Total number of signals to be measured is only limited by the ibaPDA license and performance of the involved systems.

HPCi request is also supported for different physical interfaces:

  • ibaLink-SM-128V-i-2o / ibaLink-VME (data channel via ibaFOB cards)

  • Reflective Memory (data channel via PCI-boards VMIPCI 5565, 5576, 5579, 5587)

Functional principle

A special tool in the HPCi programming software, the address book generator, creates a reference file, which consists of system configuration and the available signals on the DGM200 and in the HPCi stations. After selection of the signals to be measured in the I/O Manager of ibaPDA (via browser or drag & drop), request messages are sent to the corresponding HPCi stations over TCP/IP. In the HPCi stations, special service routines, so called agents, respond to the requests by assigning the requested signals to the DGM200 bus for measurement.