I/O Driver

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I/O Driver

An I/O Driver is an E3 module that enables communication with a certain device, by using DLL Drivers supplied by Elipse Software. A manual is supplied along with every Driver and it contains important information regarding configuration of its [P] parameters and other properties. The available types of Driver objects for communication are described on the following table.

Available objects on I/O Drivers

Object

Description

Folder Folder

Defines groups and sub-directories for organizing variables. It does not have a direct relationship with field devices

I/O Tag I/O Tag

Used to define communication with a variable or a memory address of an acquisition device

I/O Block I/O Block

Used to define communication with several variables or several memory addresses in a sequence of an acquisition device

Block Element Block Element

Represent each one of the addresses of a Block and are used as if they were I/O Tags. Block Elements can point to each index inside a Block, corresponding to each monitored variable

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