Communication interface iqInterface

USBconnectionRS232

iqInterface® is a versatile development and production tool for IO-Link Master and IO-Link Device components. Instead of establishing laborious system installations with controls, fieldbuses, and IO-Link gateways, you can use a simple connection via RS232, USB or Ethernet of iqInterface® in order to communicate with your IO-Link products during development, testing, approval, or production. Possible applications in production and testing -high-performance iqTool GUI for fast implementation and tests accompanying development -simple and uniform serial communication protocol -specification for the serial communication protocol is disclosed -communication DLLs (ANSI C) for connecting iqInterface® to the testing environment -disclosure of the DLL source codes, making it possible to extend and reuse ANSI C projects in client applications at will -possibility of directly using the IO-Link hardware on hand in order to realize any client-specific serialprotocols (e.g. calibration mechanisms, bootloader implementation) -extensive Python test automation library for creating complex and extremely flexible testing procedures for protocol, software module, and black-box tests IO-Link Device functionality -configuration of a generic device with any IO-Link communication parameters -V1.0 and V1.1 IO-Link specification support -event and error generation -2kByte freely configurable permanentparameter memory -data storage device support -device settings are permanently stored in EEPROM so the generic device is also applicableautonomously without pre-configuration