Rockwell Automation 1757-SWKIT4000 ProcessLogix R400.0 Installation and Upgrade Guide - Manual (Page 13)

Publication 1757-IN040B-EN-P - March 2002
Table of Contents ix
Chapter 11
Performance and Capacity
Specifications PC Platform Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-1
Summary of R400.0 Enhancements to ProcessLogix System
Capacity & Performance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-2
Server Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-2
Platform System Configuration Definitions . . . . . . . . . . 11-3
Station/Engineering Client Requirements. . . . . . . . . . . . 11-5
ProcessLogix Server Platform Requirements. . . . . . . . . . 11-6
Application Usage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-6
User Interface Capacity and Performance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-9
Control Network . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-10
Server Redundancy
11-11
Server Notifications 11-11
Communications Capacity and Performance . . . . . . . . . . . 11-12
System Communications Load Philosophy
and Guidelines. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-12
System Communications Limits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-15
Controller Communications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-16
Client/Server Communication Capacity . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-18
Controller Notifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-18
Controller Redundancy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-19
I/O Specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-20
PROFIBUS DP Topology Specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-21
ProcessLogix/PROFIBUS Interface
Topology Specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-21
FIM Performance Limits. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-23
I/O Module Sample Periods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-25
I/O Network Configuration Rules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-25
1757-PLX52 Resources. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-26
Chapter 12
Major ProcessLogix Software
Components Major ProcessLogix FTW Software Revisions . . . . . . . . . 12-1
Major ProcessLogix Server Software Revisions . . . . . . . . 12-2
Embedded Software Components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12-3
External, Third Party Qualified Software Components . . 12-5
Miscellaneous SCADA Component Revisions. . . . . . . . . 12-7
Controller, Communication & I/O Firmware . . . . . . . . . 12-7