January 6, 2014 – Divelbiss announces the second generation PLC on a Chip embedded, single chip, programmable logic controller, the P-Series. The P-Series PLC on a Chip has enhanced capabilities and improved performance over the original M-Series PLC on a Chip. Hardware features included on the P-Series PLC on a Chip include: Ethernet communications and Modbus TCP, advanced serial communications including Modbus master and slave, enhanced counter/timer functionality, 164 digital I/O, up to 8 12 bit analog inputs and one 10 bit analog output, integrated real time clock, SD card interface, SPI ports, quadrature counter, keypad and display interface, expanded user memory on chip, accelerated scan times and 2 CAN ports.
The P-Series PLC on a Chip is available in an easy-to-use module and can be added to any embedded application, with no low-level programming required. After integration into any product, the user’s application program can be entered and monitored using the Divelbiss EZ Ladder Toolkit. This advanced programming tool supports features including: Ladder diagram, Function Block and Structured Text. Additional math functions including square root and custom Function Blocks are also supported. The P-Series PLC on a Chip has a wide temperature range of -40 to 85 degrees C and can be embedded in electro hydraulic and mobile equipment, motor drives, HMI’s, packaging equipment, telematics, remote field applications and various other applications.
