DeviceNet & ControlNet

Mrs. Meera Ajit Khandekar

Department of Instrumentation & Control
College of Engineering, Pune

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• DeviceNet is widely used in various applications, like
electrical energy distribution plants, the food and beverage
industry, chemical plants, oil and gas production and
distribution systems.

• The DeviceNet refers to an application protocol that uses the

controller area network protocol to access the physical
medium

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DeviceNet communication profile

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Devicenet Physical Layer:
Uses the CAN physical layer signaling. One of the
advantage is great availability of chips implementing the
CAN protocol from many suppliers.

Maximum 64 nodes can be connected to the network.

DeviceNet offers the possibility of powering the sensors
directly from the network.

Trunk cable comprises two twisted pairs, one is used for

the data transfer, the other for the power distribution.

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Three different data transfer speed are selectable:
125, 250 and 500kbits/s.

The corresponding maximum distance coverable by

the trunk line are respectively 500, 250 and 100m

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DeviceNet data link layer:
Devicenet data link layer uses the can medium access
control (mac) and logical link control sublayer.

To access physical medium Carrier Sense Multiple

Access with Collision Detection(CSMA/CD) technique is
used.

Figure shows data frame transmitted on the network has

an arbitration field composed of an 11-bit identifier field
plus another bit called remote transmission request(RTR)

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DeviceNet Application Layer:

The protocol assigns to each station connected to the

network an address is called media access control
identifier(MAC ID)

11-bit CAN identifier field contains the information

necessary to classify the frames: in particular, it
includes a message ID and the MAC ID which,
depending on the message group, can be either the
source or destination MAC ID

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The 64-bit CAN data field is used to transmit the information related to
the connection between devices.

With the predefined master/slave connection set the data exchange

may take place using one of four different methods.

The bit strobe command/response messages, intended for the

exchange of small amounts of data

The poll command is an I/O message, containing any amount of data

sent by the master to a single slave.

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The poll command is an I/O message, containing any
amount of data sent by the master to a single slave. The
latter with the poll response I/O message, may also
return data.

The change od state/cyclic are I/O messages that can be

transmitted either by the master or by a slave. They are
normally triggered by specific events such as an alarm
or the expiring of a timer.

The explicit response/requests are

general purpose message used, to transfer the values
of some attributes.

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ControlNet

ControlNet is based on a producer/consumer model,

exhibit good efficiency and provides deterministic
response times.

ControlNet is used in complex batch control systems,

the process industry and the automotive industry.

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Physical Layer:
Physical layer is split into two sublayers; the physical medium
attachment (PMA) and the physical layer signaling(PLS) .

The PMA is responsible for the transmission/reception of signals

to/from the bus and comprises all the necessary circuitry that is not
part of the ControlNet stations.

The PLS implements the bit representation and timing functions

required for the correct transmission of the signals on the network.
The PLS realizes the interface to the data link layer.

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The controlnet standard basically recommends two types of physical
media: coaxial cable and fiber optics. A third media type, network
access port(nap), allows point-to-point temporary connection
between two nodes. A NAP is often used for example, to realize a link
between a programming unit and a station already connected to
ControlNet.

The specified coaxial cable is a RG-6 quad shield, of the same type as
that for the cable television industry. Several topologies may be
realized with ControlNet e.g. bus, tree,star network

Repeaters can be used to link segments. Each station is connected

to a segment by means of a tap to which it is linked via a drop cable.

The maximum segment length is related to the number of stations

connected: 1000m with two stations, decreasing to 250m with 48
stations.

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Data Link Layer:

Datalink layer is split into two sublayers: medium access

control(MAC) and the logical link control(LLC)
A fixed period of time, the network update time(NTU) to which all the
stations are strictly synchronized, is repeated indefinitely on the
network.
The NTU is divided into three intervals of time: scheduled,
unscheduled and guardband.

The scheduled interval is typically reserved for the transmission of

real-time data.
The MAC grants each station the possibility of transmitting one and
only one frame during the scheduled interval. This is accomplished
by means of an implicit token-passing procedure.

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Token passing:
1) each station is identified by an address called the MAC ID.
2) every station connected to the network maintains an implicit
token register that contains the MAC ID of the transmitting
station.
3) this value is incremented by one at the end of the frame
transmission.
4) Immediately after each station compares its MAC ID with that
contained in the implicit token register and, if they match that
station has right to transmit.
5) If a station is not present, in the fraction of scheduled interval
reserved to that station there will not be activity on the network.
6) in this case, after a time-out the MAC ID is newly incremented
by all the stations and the implicit token is passed on.
7) scheduled interval ends when the maximum value for the MAC
ID is reached.

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Unscheduled interval: in this period the implicit token is still
circulated among stations according to a round robin scheme.
The duration of such an interval is variable and a station can be
granted zero, one, or more times to access the network.
Unscheduled interval does not allow for a deterministic access to
the network and hence is used for transmission of noncritical
data.

When the guardband interval is reached, the stations stop

transmitting and access to the network is granted to the station
with the lowest MAC ID, which is called the moderator. This
station transmits a special message with which synchronizes all
the stations for the beginning of a new cycle and dispatches a set
of parameters necessary for correct network operation.

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ControlNet Network and Transport layer:
The and transport layers contain three basic modules: the
unconnected message manager(UCMM), the message router, and the
transport connection manager.

The UMCC provides a means for the execution of unconnected

services; that is, it allows for the data exchange between applications
that were not previously put in communication by a connection. In
this case, each data transfer is independent from the others and the
messages have to carry the full details of the destination and source
applications.

The UCMM is mainly used for handling noncritical traffic and one of its
most important applications is given by the data exchange services
necessary to set up connections.

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The message router realizes the correct dispatching of
services, inside a station, to the addressed applications.

The transport connection manager is actually responsible for

the handling of connections. It has to make available the
services necessary to create and delete connections and to
exchange data over an established connections.

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Presentation Layer:

This layer is concerned with the data management. In particular, it

defines a common means for specifying the format of the data
handled by the application layer. The presentation layer defines
elementary and derived data types. Example of elementary data
types handled are Boolean, integer, floating point, character
string and bit string.

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Application Layer: is based on the object modeling.
The definitions of object, class, instance, behavior and
services.
Objects represents an abstract description of the
components of a station.
A class is defined as a group of objects representing
the same types of components.
An instance is the real occurrence of an object and the
attributes describe its characteristics.
The behavior specifies how an object performs, and
service identifies a function supported by an object.

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