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Backplane device driver – ProSoft Technology MVI69E-LDM User Manual

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MVI69E-LDM ♦ "C" Programmable

Developer's Manual

Linux Application Development Module

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ProSoft Technology, Inc.

August 21, 2014

3.4

Backplane Device Driver

The backplane device driver performs CIP messaging over the CompactLogix backplane
using the Midrange ASIC. The user application interfaces with the backplane device driver
through the CIP API library. The backplane device driver for the MVI69E-LDM module is

libocxbpeng.so

. The driver implements the following components and objects:

All data exchange between the application and the backplane occurs through the Assembly
Object, using functions provided by the CIP API. The API includes functions to register or
unregister the object, accept or deny Class 1 schedule connections requests, access
scheduled connection data, and service unscheduled messages.