Description

This is an interface between ibaPDA and the X-Pact system of SMS Siemag. It provides ibaPDA with symbolic access to all signals defined in the X-Pact system.

Currently, up to 2 interfaces are supported for data acquisition:

  • ibaLink-SM-128V-i-2o / ibaLink-VME cards

  • Reflective Memory cards VMIC 5576 and 5565.

An additional Ethernet TCP/IP connection between ibaPDA and X-Pact is required for configuration. The X-Pact Request interface requires address books of the corresponding X-Pact projects. They can be created with the address book generator or imported once they are available. A maximum of up to 1024 modules are supported per interface.
Interface configuration (Overview tab)

Active

Check this option if you want to use the interface.

<Create address books>

Unless already done, you should create address books first. Clicking on this button, will open the address book. Enter here the full path of the X-Pact project. Then load one or several projects by clicking on <Load projects> and check the resources in the tree structure, for which the address book is to be created. Finally click on <Create address books> and exit the dialog. You can create address books for up to 2 projects.

<Import address books>

Clicking on this button, will load an address book that was already created or previously extracted from a ZIP file into your file system.

<Export address books>

Click on this button in order to load address books that were currently loaded as zip-files in your system.

Multicast IP address and Port no.

By default, these values are set to 239.23.07.78 (Multicast IP address) and 17477 (Port no.); usually, these values can be kept. You can configure them according to your needs.

X-Pact CPU response timeout [s]

This value defines the maximum waiting time before an X-Pact CPU is considered as not available.

Disable signals from non-responding CPUs

At the start of the acquisition, all CPUs (in the X-Pact Controller) are requested. If a CPU is not responsive, the related signals will be disabled and the acquisition will start without these signals, provided this option is enabled.

Enable CPU reconnect detection

If this option is enabled, missing CPUs will be checked also during the measurement. In case the CPUs are available again, the measurement stops, a request will be executed and the measurement restarts.

Enable DMA for request modules on reflective memory

Enable this option if you use a reflective memory board, which supports DMA (Direct Memory Access), such as PCI-5565PIORC or PCIE-5565PIORC. Particularly, when processing large amounts of data and/or acquiring the data very fast via the reflective memory board, the CPU load of the ibaPDA computer can thus be reduced significantly though increasing the processing speed.

<Apply and restart>

Click on this button after all settings are made.
Controller status area

As soon as you apply the configuration and restart the measurement, you will find a grid showing all involved controllers below the properties area. The color of a controller corresponds to the status of the connection with the controller or its first CPU. There are 4 possible color displays:

  • Red: there is no TCP connection and no data connection to the controller.

  • Yellow: there is a TCP connection but no data connection to the controller.

  • Green with exclamation point: there is a TCP connection and at least one data connection to the controller was detected.

  • Green without exclamation point: there is a TCP connection and all data connections to the controller were detected.

A flashing controller indicates an existing connection,which is not listed in the project and a missing address book. In this case, refresh the address books by reloading the project in the address book generator.
Diagnostics tab

On this tab, you will find detailed information on the diagnosis of the connected X-Pact system.
Available modules

  • X-Pact request; 0 to 1000 analog signals and 0 to 1000 digital signals (default 32/32)

For further information on module configuration, refer to X-Pact Request module.
Product name

ibaPDA-Interface-Request-X-Pact (art. no. 31.001340)