To configure a module, select it in the tree structure.

All modules have the following setting options.
Basic settings

Module Type (information only)

Indicates the type of the current module.

Locked

You can lock a module to avoid unintentional or unauthorized changing of the module settings.

Enabled

Enable the module to record signals.

Name

You can enter a name for the module here.

Comment

You can enter a comment or description of the module here. This will be displayed as a tooltip in the signal tree.

Module No.

This internal reference number of the module determines the order of the modules in the signal tree of ibaPDA client and ibaAnalyzer.

Timebase

All signals of the module are sampled on this timebase.

Use module name as prefix

This option puts the module name in front of the signal names.

Text encoding

You can select the type of text encoding or the code page here for a correct interpretation and display of the received text data for inputs as well as of the text data to be sent for outputs. Available for selection are, beside system locale according to the Windows system settings (default) and UTF-8 Unicode, all other encodings.
ibaNet-E

Own frame ID

Dedicated frame ID of the ibaNet-E connection (value must be in the range 10000-10255)

Image size

Total number of bytes in one ibaNet-E image

Fragmented

Indicates whether an ibaNet-E image is fragmented or not.

Drift compensation

Disable drift compensation if data is being transmitted slower than every 10 ms, so as to improve the processing of received data.

Images per frame

Number of ibaNet-E images in one frame

Connection timeout

Time after which data acquisition is stopped after a connection is cut

Time domain

ibaNet time domain from which the data is to be acquired

Enter the number of the ibaNet time domain here if the data belonging to this time domain is to be synchronized. If this property is set to zero (default), no time domain will be used.

When using a time domain, you must enable drift compensation (Drift compensation = True).

Reference connection

The reference connection is the connection which is used by other connections in the same time domain for synchronization. If this setting is True for one module, then the connection of this module is entitled reference connection. Accordingly, you should set all other modules which are used in the same time domain on False.

Only one reference connection is allowed per time domain.
Module structure

Number of analog/digital signals

Set the number of configurable analog or digital signals in the signal tables. The default value for each is 32. The maximum value is 1000 analog and 65536 digital signals. The signal tables are adjusted accordingly.
Connection

Data path

Protocol used to transfer data between ibaPDA and the ibaNet-E device. The available options are:

  • IPv4

  • Raw

If Raw is selected, a network interface must be selected for ibaPDA to access the ibaNet-E device.

UDP-Multicast

When enabled, ibaPDA will subscribe to the specific multicast group in order to receive data. Enter the multicast IP address to which the data will be sent in the Multicast IP address field.