Differences between the NSJ Controller and Previous Products Section 1-2

1-2 Differences between the NSJ Controller and Previous

Products
This section describes the differences between the Controller Section of the
NSJ Controller and a CJ-series CJ1G-CPU45H CPU Unit and between the
Display Section of the NSJ Controller and an NS-series PT.

1-2-1 Differences between Controller Sections and CJ1G-CPU45H for

All Models of NSJ Controllers
Item CJ1G-CPU45H Controller Section
Power supply A Power Supply Unit is A Power Supply Unit is not required. (An external 24-V DC power
required. supply is connected to provide power to both the Display Section
and Controller Section.)
DeviceNet Unit A DeviceNet Unit must be DeviceNet master functionality is built in. The functionality is equiv-
mounted separately as a CPU alent to that of the CJ1W-DRM21.
Bus Unit.
CJ-series Basic I/O CJ-series Units can be • NSJ Expansion Units can be used instead of CJ-series Ethernet
Units, Special I/O mounted. or Controller Link Units (NSJW-ETN21 NSJ Ethernet Unit and
Units, and CPU Bus NSJW-CLK21-V1 NSJ Controller Link Unit).
Units • An NSJ I/O Control Unit (NSJW-IC101) can be mounted to
enable mounting CJ-series Basic I/O Units, Special I/O Units, and
CPU Bus Units to CJ-series Expansion Racks.
Peripheral port A peripheral port is provided. There is no peripheral port, but a USB port is provided instead. A
Programming Console cannot be connected.
PLC Setup --- Operation Startup Condition Settings are provided.
Operation startup settings can be made after the Display Section
starts up.
Easy backup func- The easy backup function is DIP switch settings can be used, but the backup and comparison
tion controlled using DIP switch features of the easy backup function can also be controlled from
settings. the System Menu of the Display Section. Data cannot be restored
from the Display Section.
Auxiliary Area bit --- The following bits have been added to the Auxiliary Area.
allocations • A35500: Display Section Initializing Flag
• A39500: Fatal Error Flag
• A39501: Non-fatal Error Flag
• A40112: Display Section Fatal Error Flag
• A40108: Display Section Non-fatal Error Flag
• A42400 to A42403: Display Section Fatal Error Details
• A42404 to A42415: Display Section Non-fatal Error Details
• A60800: Display Section Restart Bit
• A34312: Verification Mismatch Flag
Inner Board Area --- A Display Section Status Area has been added.
allocations • CIO 1900: Display Section Mode Status
• CIO 1901: Display Section Screen Transfer Status
• CIO 1902: Display Section Error Status
Power interruption 0 to 10 ms (Set by user; Always 0 ms
detection delay default: 0 ms)

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1-2-2 Differences between NSJ@-@@@@(B)-M3D Controller Sections

and CJ1G-CPU45H
Item CJ-series CJ1G-CPU45H NSJ Controller Section
I/O capacity 1,280 points 640 points
Program capacity 60 Ksteps 20 Ksteps
Expansion Racks 3 max. 1 max.
EM Area 32 Kwords x 3 banks None
E0_00000 to E2_32767
Function blocks Definitions 1,024 max. 128 max.
Instances 2,048 max. 256 max.
Flash memory FB program memory 1,024 Kbytes 256 Kbytes
Variable tables 128 Kbytes 64 Kbytes

1-2-3 Differences between Display Section and NS-series PT

Item NS-series PT Display Section
PLC/DeviceNet troubleshoot- Not supported Supported (built-in)
ing functions • Controller Section and DeviceNet troubleshooting can be
selected from the System Memory of the Display Section.
• The alarm function of the Display Section can be registered
to display the Controller Section/DeviceNet Troubleshooting
Screen when an alarm occurs.
• Command buttons can be created to switch the screen to the
Controller Section /DeviceNet Troubleshooting Screen.
Clock CPU Unit and PT cannot The Display Section is synchronized to the Controller Section.
be synchronized. The clock in the Controller Section can be set from the Sys-
tem Menu of the Display Section.
Ladder moni- Display Sec- Supported (Copied to Not supported
tor function tion system Memory Card)
version 6.5 (See note 1.)
Display Sec- Built-in Built-in (See note 1.)
tion system (See notes 1 and 2.)
version 6.6
PT Program- Display Sec- Supported (Copied to Not supported
ming Console tion system Memory Card)
function version 6.5
Display Sec- Supported (See note 3.) Supported (See note 4.)
tion system
version 6.6
Device monitoring function Supported Supported
Built-in serial ports (serial The ports cannot be The Controller Section can be accessed from a Programming
ports A and B) used to access the CPU Device (CX-Programmer or CX-Integrator).
Built-in Ethernet port Unit without setting rout- The Controller Section can be accessed from a Programming
ing tables. Device (CX-Programmer or CX-Integrator).

(1) Ladder monitoring cannot be performed with the NS5 or NSJ5.

(2) With version-1 Controllers (-V1), copy the program to a Memory Card to
use ladder monitoring.
(3) The Programming Console function is built into the NS12/10/8-V2 Con-
trollers. With other Controllers, copy the program to a Memory Card to
use the Programming Console function.
(4) The Programming Console function cannot be used with a built-in Con-
troller Section. It can be used only through a NT Link (serial port A or B)
when connected to another PLC. Also the program must be copied to a
Memory Card to use the Programming Console function.

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1-2-4 Comparison of Ethernet Functionality for NSJ Controllers

Item Built-in Ethernet ports NSJ Ethernet Unit
Displaying and Setting Data Data can be displayed and set for other The same functions are supported as
for Another Host (PLC) hosts on the Ethernet network. For exam- described to the left for the built-in Ethernet
ple, it is possible to display and set at one port.
NSJ Controller the data of another NSJ
Controller or PLC.
Connection to a host computer Programming Device connections: The same functions are supported as
Ethernet can be used for CX-One (CX-Pro- described to the left for the built-in Ethernet
grammer, CX-Designer, etc.). Screen data port (except that Display Section Memory
and ladder programs can be transferred Cards cannot be accessed).
from the host computer. In addition, the following functions are sup-
Accessing Display Section Memory Cards: ported:
Ethernet can be used for accessing special Accessing Controller Section Memory
tools from the host computer or accessing Cards
Display Section Memory Cards by FTP. For Clock-setting using SNTP function
example, Display Section recipe data, TCP/IP compatibility
alarms, and data log files can be acquired
from the host computer.
Accessing the host from host applications:
The Controller Section of an NSJ Controller
can be accessed from the host computer
using FINS communications. For example,
NSJ Controller DM can be read and written
from applications on the host computer.
(UDP only)
Sending and receiving Email Not supported Supported
Communications by executing Not supported Socket service communications by execut-
ladder program instructions ing the CMND instruction
SEND and RECV instructions

Screen data can be transferred between NSJ Controllers using the CX-
Designer across networks only if the NSJ Controllers are connected by the
built-in Ethernet ports on the NSJ controller.

1-3 Internal Operation of NSJ Controllers

The internal operation of the NSJ Controller is described in this section.
• The Controller Section and Display Section exchange data using the
Inner bus.
• The DeviceNet master function as well as the NSJ Controller Link Unit or
NSJ Ethernet Unit (Expansion Units) are handled as CJ-series CPU Bus
Units. CIO Area and DM Area words are allocated to these according the
unit numbers.

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