New ADAM OPC Server and Modbus RTU OPC Server for Windows NT/CE are Ready to Ship

Advantech IAG S/W team has released the new ADAM OPC server and Modbus OPC server for Windows NT and Windows CE platforms, which are ready for shipment in April. These new OPC servers are developed by ICONICS OPC Toolkit version 2.0 and are compliant with the OPC specification 2.0. The new ADAM OPC server and Modbus RTU OPC server are so easy to use that you need only to configure the Device, Group and Tag settings of your device I/O to monitor their current values. There is also an OPC Client application -"OPC Browser", which allows you to monitor all real-time device I/O data from any OPC server. You can also download the same OPC server configuration to a Windows CE device to monitor real-time device I/O data. Besides, you don't have to use other tools or development applications for Windows CE device I/O connection and monitoring. ADAM OPC server and Modbus OPC server for Windows CE are bundled with a HMI-640S-GNI Windows HMI platform.



The new ADAM OPC server version 2.0 supports not only the ADAM-4000 and ADAM-5000/485 modules, but also the ADAM-5000/E 8-slot I/O distributed DA&C module and ADAM-5080 4-channel Counter/Frequency module are newly added to its hardware supporting list. The Modbus RTU OPC server supports I/O devices that are compatible with Modbus RTU protocol, and is well tested with the ADAM-5511 PC-based Programmable Modbus Controller.

The key features of new the ADAM OPC server and Modbus OPC server are listed as below:
- Advanced OPC data quality and data conversion for client's request
- Support multi-drop ADAM-4000 and ADAM-5000/485 I/O devices
- Utilize the concept of Groups for easy configuration and manageability
- Support all popular PLC data types, such as WORD, LONG, FLOAT, INT
- Internally Simulated for configuration and testing
- Tag Multiplier lets you create hundreds of tags in seconds
- OPC Sample Client for rapid testing of your OPC data connections
- GUI interface for viewing devices, tags, groups, and real-time signals
- Full online help and documentation
- Online configuration of Devices, Groups and Tags
- Flexible raw and engineering units and signal scaling

The part number of ADAM OPC server is "PCLS-OPC/ADM" and the part number of Modbus OPC server is "PCLS-OPC/MOD". These two OPC servers are scheduled to ship at the end of April, 2000.

Note: The ADAM OPC server version 1.0, developed by Intellution OPC Toolkit, would be phased out and replaced by the ADAM OPC server version 2.0. We will continue to support the ADAM OPC server version 1.0 until July of 2000.