Echelon IzoT NodeBuilder - Manual (Page 16)

Introduction to the IzoT NodeBuilder Tool
The IzoT NodeBuilder Development Tool is a complete hardware and software platform for
developing, debugging, testing, and maintaining IzoT and L
ON W ORKS devices based on the Neuron
6000 Processor and FT 6000 Smart Transceiver and all previous-generation Series 5000 and Series
3100 chips. You can use the IzoT NodeBuilder tool to create many types of devices, including VAV
controllers, thermostats, washing machines, card-access readers, refrigerators, lighting ballasts, blinds,
and pumps. You can use these devices in a variety of systems including building and lighting controls,
factory automation, energy management, and transportation.
You can use the IzoT NodeBuilder tool to do the following:
• View standard resource file definitions for standard network variable types (SNVTs), standard
configuration property (SCPTs), and standard functional profile templates (SFPTs).
• Create your own resource files with user-defined network variable types (UNVTs), user-defined
configuration property (UCPTs), and user-defined functional profile templates (UFPTs).
• Automatically generate Neuron C code that implements your device’s interface and provides the
framework for your device application.
• Edit your Neuron C code to implement your device’s functionality.
• Compile, build, and download your application to a development platform or to your own devices.
• Test with prototype I/O hardware on either the FT 6000 EVB Evaluation Boards included with the
FT 6000 EVK and available separately, or LTM-10A Platform and Gizmo 4 I/O Board included
with the NodeBuilder FX/PL tool and available separately, or use your own custom device to
build and test your own I/O hardware.
• Install your device into an IzoT or L
ON W ORKS network and test how your device interoperates
with other IzoT and L ON W ORKS devices.
New Features in the IzoT NodeBuilder Tool
The IzoT NodeBuilder tool includes support for Echelon’s new Series 6000 chips (the term used to
collectively refer to the FT 6050 and FT 6010 Smart Transceivers and the Neuron 6050 Processor),
support for Echelon’s new FT 6000 EVB, support for the previous generation Series 5000 and Series
3100 chips, and the following key features:
• Support for the IzoT LonTalk/IP and BACnet/IP protocols
• Support for transient functions and automatically tuned memory maps
• Extended address table support with support for up to 254 address table entries
• Support for network variables up to 228 bytes (exceeding the previous limit of 31 bytes)
• Neuron C Version 2.3 Enhancements
The following sections describe these new features.
LonTalk/IP Support
The Series 6000 chips and firmware add support for the LonTalk/IP protocol. The LonTalk/IP
protocol is the control network protocol that implements IzoT Control Services. IzoT Control Services
are based on the L
ON M ARK Layer 7 protocol, the ISO/IEC 14908-1 Layers 3 to 6 protocols, with
native IP addressing at Layer 3, and link-specific protocols for Layers 1 and 2. The link-specific
protocols may implement compression of the Layer 3 packets depending on the requirements of the
underlying links. There are two modes for LonTalk/IP called Compatibility Mode and Enhanced
Mode. In Compatibility Mode LonTalk/IP devices can communicate with LonTalk devices directly
without the need for a router as long as they are on the same LonTalk-compatible channel. LonTalk/IP
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