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Mini PCI cards for PROFIBUS, CANopen, DeviceNet and Ethernet now enhance the Beckhoff PC Fieldbus Card range. Like standard PCI cards, the interfaces are optimised for fast controllers andreal-time tasks.
The power of the fieldbus cards can be most easily seen in combination with the TwinCAT software PLC and NC. But other applications also benefit from the intelligent PCI cards that handle the fieldbus protocol efficiently on their own processors.
The bus interface is not implemented on the fieldbus card, but separately in the respective housing (device-specific). The fieldbus cards are optionally obtainable with 128 kB NOVRAM.
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