IO-Link Device Stack
Today’s sensors and actuators are often equipped with small, powerful microprocessors that offer extended functionality, such as parameterization and diagnostic capabilities. However, these additional functions are often not visible in standardized control or monitoring systems.
IO-LinkTM, the digital, bidirectional communication standard (IEC 61131-9), now offers, among other things, the possibility to easily make these extended sensor and actuator functions available to higher-level automation systems.
Our IO-Link Software Stack for IO-Link Devices offers manufacturers of sensors and actuators a cost-effective and simple way to integrate current IO-Link technology into their products.
Features - Device Stack
- Complies with the latest IO-Link communication specification
- Synchronous or asynchronous process data handling
- ISDU support
- Data storage
- Parameter handler
- Process synchronization
- System utilization ~ 50% on 8-bit processor @ 16 MHz
- Porting to different µCs and IO-Link PHYs only requires a driver exchange
- Complies with the current IO-Link interface specification V1.1.4
- Enables synchronous and asynchronous process data access
- Data management support
- Optimized for short response times
- System utilization ~ 50% with an 8-bit processor @ 14.7456 MHz.
- Modular stack design enables support and exchange of various IO-Link transceiver chips
Device Stack Features
- STMicroelectronics STM32 (Cortex M0, Cortex M3, Cortex M4)
- STMicroelectronics STM8L/STM8S
- Renesas RL78
- Silicon Labs C8051F31x
- NXP LPC11xx (Cortex M0)
- Atmel ATSAM3S (Cortex M3)
- Atmel ATmega32/64/128
- Atmel ATtiny
- MSP430
- EFM32
Transceiver ICs supported by the Device Stack
- STMicroelectronics L6362
- Maxim MAX14820 / MAX14821 / MAX14827A / MAX14828
- Linear Technology LT3669/LT3669-2
- HMT microelectronic HMT7742
- Renesas CCE4502, ZIOL2401
- Texas Instruments SN65HVD10x, TIOL
Our flexible stack structure allows for easy porting of our IO-Link Device Stack to any microcontroller/ASIC to meet the requirements of our business partners.
The supported MCUs or PHYs listed here are examples of existing portings. All listed components have already been verified/used with our stack. If you wish to use a different MCU or IO-Link PHY not listed here, or if you require special hardware or an FPGA-based design, please contact us.
Please contact our sales department for licensing details.
Compilers / Development Environments supported by the Device Stack
- KEIL-MDK
- SiLabs IDE
- ST Visual Develop
- Eclipse/GCC/NXP LPCXpresso
- IAR
- Cosmic
Device Stack License Information
- No restriction to a Vendor ID / Device ID combination.
- Driver for one processor architecture
- Driver for a selected transceiver chip
- IO-Link Device Stack API User Manual
- Installation manual and API description of the device driver.
- Demo – Application
- Compiler and Linker Example Project
Additional offerings for the Device Stack
- Evaluation Boards
- IO-Link Device Descriptor IODD Support
- Software/Hardware Development Support
- Execution of conformity tests on your behalf
Contact
- +49 761 21443640
- +49 761 21443636
- info@teconcept.de
Please use our contact form for further questions about our IO-Link Device Stack. We are also happy to discuss other project ideas or answer questions about our other products. The more precise your information, the more targeted our response can be.