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Filtering and Data Extraction Functionality (Patent Pending)
1.3.3. Filtering and Data Extraction Functionality (Patent Pending)
EtherNet/IP firmware 3.x provides the
following filtering and data extraction
functionality:
• Filtering
- String Filtering of up to 128
bytes of raw/ASCII data to both
the PLC and/or application.
- RFID filtering of EPCglobal
formatted RFID tag data to
both the PLC and/or
application.
- Barcode filtering of all UPC/
EAN formatted barcodes data
to both the PLC and/or
application.
• Data extraction
- RFID data extraction extracts all parameters, such as company code, product code, and serial
numbers, from any or all of the 43 EPCglobal tag formats. It then transfers the data to the PLC and/
or application in a consistent and simple format.
- Barcode data extraction extracts the company, product, and numbering codes from UPC/EAN
formatted barcodes. It then transfers the data to the PLC and/or application in a consistent and
simple format.
• Environment specific support
- Support for multiple RFID reader tag formats.
- RFID antenna grouping.
- Aging of filtered string/RFID/barcode entries.
- Discarding of unrecognized RFID and barcode messages.
If you are running firmware V2.x, you may want to review the following list additional features provided in
firmware V3.x.
• Improved PLC interfaces
- Increased PLC interface bandwidth provides improved performance and lower latencies when
interfacing to higher bandwidth serial and Ethernet devices such as RFID readers.
- Transfer of large received serial device packets up to 1518 bytes.
- Transfer of large received Ethernet device packets up to 2048 bytes.
- Throttling of received data to the PLC in the Write-to-Tag/File receive mode ensures data received by
the PLC is not overwritten before it can be processed.
- Disabling of non-filtered receive queue ensures the PLC only receives the latest received serial/
Ethernet device data.
• New embedded web pages
- PLC Interface Diagnostics page, which provides statistics and error messages to monitor and help
diagnose PLC interface problems.
- Serial/Ethernet Device Communication Statistics page, which is a comprehensive statistics page for
all serial and Ethernet device interfaces. Includes packet, byte, and error counts to the PLC(s) and
Application(s) as well as comprehensive filtering statistics.
- Ethernet Device Interface Configuration page, which provides a user interface to the Ethernet device
interface configuration.
For detailed information about filtering and data extraction, see the DeviceMaster UP Filtering and Data
Extraction Reference Guide.
EtherNet/IP Filtering Functionality (V3.x)