Micro Controller Driver

Observe these guidelines when working with Micro Controller Driver.

Supported controllers

Micro Controller Driver supports

Micro800™

controllers and

MicroLogix™

1400 controllers, as well as SLC 500 controllers.

IMPORTANT: Use a single MicroControllerStation to connect with the supported controllers.

TIP: If you use a 1761-NET-ENI(W) module to communicate to the serial port of a supported controller, you must use a Series C or Series D 1761-NET-ENI(W) module to work with FactoryTalk Optix.

Controller tags import

With Micro Controller Driver, you can import tags from

Micro800

controllers in the online mode.

This communication driver supports importing custom data types defined in the controller project.

Data types

Micro Controller Driver supports these data types:

Basic data types
Datatype	FactoryTalk Optix datatype
BOOL	Boolean
SINT	SByte
DINT	Int32
REAL	Float
STRING	String
LREAL	Double
INT	Int16
LINT	Int64
USINT	Byte
BYTE	Byte
UINT	UInt16
WORD	UInt16
UDINT	UInt32
DATE
TIME
DWORD
ULINT	UInt64
LWORD	UInt64

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