Mixed PowerPIM System
Notes:
Above, the configuration is similar, however instead of the NT-PIM hosting the PIM runtime software, we have shown a VME PowerPIM. This represents a typical configuration that might be found in an application demanding hard real-time performance, such as a control application in manufacturing or process control.
Note again that any number of VME PowerPIMs can be connected via TCP/IP as dictated by application requirements. This example also shows a connection to plant floor I/O via a Flavors I/O Processor (IOP), which provides a DeviceNet™ interface to the factory floor.
Again, HMI is accomplished through a number of Macintosh G3/G4 or Intel-based computers running ParaScope and LabView. Configurations of up to twenty PIMs interconnected via TCP/IP have been successfully implemented in this manner.