Bus Monitor USB
New PROFIBUS DP Bus Monitor USB now supports PROFIBUS PA and FF H1

Karlsruhe, 2009 – The fields of application of COMSOFT's Bus Monitor USB are the development of products as well as the implementation, diagnostics and maintenance of PROFIBUS DP – and recently PROFIBUS PA and Foundation Fieldbus H1 networks.

The PROFIBUS diagnosis tool Bus Monitor has the size of a standard PROFIBUS plug. The otherwise necessary active probe head is deleted without substitution. The USB 2.0 interface provides fast and reliable plug and play PC connection. The low power requirement (approx. 40 mA) through the USB interface allows long run-time battery option of modern notebooks. The handling is user-friendly without time consuming training.

In online operation, the PROFIBUS Bus Monitor records the telegram data traffic up to a baud rate of 12 Mbit/s with single bit accuracy. The passive RS485 interface integrated in the plug guarantees a measurement at the bus without interfering with the bus physics. The integrated remote control feature applies to any arbitrary network PC.

In offline mode, the recorded messages are displayed and decoded on different levels for L2, DP and FMS. The PROFIBUS DP/PA and FF H1 operation also provides a large number of trigger and filter options as well as an offline presentation of the process values.

The additional, separately available software modules for long-term recording, DP Slave status analysis and OPC based access extend the Bus Monitor's field of application substantially.