ControlNet Products

The Best PLC Integration Available

ControlNet defines a real-time, control-layer network providing high-speed transport of both time-critical I/O data and messaging data on a single physical link. ControlNet's high-speed (5 Mbits/sec) and configurable data transmission capabilities significantly enhance I/O performance and peer-to-peer communications.

Using the Producer/Consumer model, ControlNet allows multiple controllers to control I/O on the same wire. This provides significant advantage over other networks, which allow only one master controller on the wire. ControlNet also allows multicast of both inputs and peer-to-peer data, thus reducing traffic on the wire and increasing system performance.

ControlNet is deterministic and repeatable, which are critical requirements for ensuring dependable, synchronized and coordinated real-time performance. Determinism is the ability to reliably predict when data will be delivered, and repeatability ensures that transmit times are constant and unaffected by devices connecting to, or leaving, the network. These features are further enhanced with user selectable I/O and controller interlocking update times to match application requirements.

AMCI offers specialty I/O modules with ControlNet connectivity for speeds up to 5Mbit/s.