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    This document discusses analog and network input/output capabilities for programmable logic controllers (PLCs). It describes how analog signals are converted to and from digital formats for PLC processing and how common analog signal types can be interfaced. The document also mentions some digital network standards like Modbus and Profibus that allow PLCs and devices to communicate.

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    This document discusses analog and network input/output capabilities for programmable logic controllers (PLCs). It describes how analog signals are converted to and from digital formats for PLC processing and how common analog signal types can be interfaced. The document also mentions some digital network standards like Modbus and Profibus that allow PLCs and devices to communicate.

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    This document discusses analog and network input/output capabilities for programmable logic controllers (PLCs). It describes how analog signals are converted to and from digital formats for PLC processing and how common analog signal types can be interfaced. The document also mentions some digital network standards like Modbus and Profibus that allow PLCs and devices to communicate.

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    This document discusses analog and network input/output capabilities for programmable logic controllers (PLCs). It describes how analog signals are converted to and from digital formats for PLC processing and how common analog signal types can be interfaced. The document also mentions some digital network standards like Modbus and Profibus that allow PLCs and devices to communicate.

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    Instrumentation Tools

    Learn Instrumentation and Control Engineering. Inst Tools covers topics of Industrial
    Instrumentation, PLC, DCS, SCADA, Field Instruments, Analyzers and so on.
    https://instrumentationtools.com

    Author: Instrumentation Tools

    Categories: PLC Tutorials

    PLC Analog I/O and Network I/O

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    In the early days of programmable logic controllers, processor speed and memory were too
    limited to support anything but discrete (on/off) control functions. Consequently, the only I/O
    capability found on early PLCs were discrete in nature. Modern PLC technology, though, is
    powerful enough to support the measurement, processing, and output of analog (continuously
    variable) signals.

    All PLCs are digital devices at heart. Thus, in order to interface with an analog sensor or control
    device, some “translation” is necessary between the analog and digital worlds. Inside every
    analog input module is an ADC, or Analog-to-Digital Converter, circuit designed to convert an
    analog electrical signal into a multi-bit binary word. Conversely, every analog output module
    contains a DAC, or Digital-to-Analog Converter, circuit to convert the PLC’s digital command
    words into analog electrical quantities.

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    Analog I/O is commonly available for modular PLCs for many different analog signal types,
    including:

    Voltage (0 to 10 volt, 0 to 5 volt)


    Current (0 to 20 mA, 4 to 20 mA)
    Thermocouple (millivoltage)
    RTD
    Strain gauge

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    The following photographs show two analog I/O cards for an Allen-Bradley SLC 500 modular

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    PLC system, an analog input card and an analog output card. Labels on the terminal cover
    doors indicate screw terminal assignments:

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    Network I/O

    Many different digital network standards exist for PLCs to communicate with, from PLC to PLC
    and between PLCs and field devices. One of the earliest digital protocols developed for PLC
    communication was Modbus, originally for the Modicon brand of PLC.

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    Modbus was adopted by other PLC and industrial device manufacturers as a de facto standard,
    and remains perhaps the most universal digital protocol available for industrial digital devices
    today. Another digital network standard developed by a particular manufacturer and later
    adopted as a de facto standard is Profibus, originally developed by Siemens.

    Credits : by Tony R. Kuphaldt

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