Nortech Systems Adept RS-232/TERM - Manual (Page 15)

Adept SmartController User’s Guide, Rev. E 15
Introduction
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1.1 Product Description
The Adept SmartController is a member of Adept’s family of high-performance
distributed motion and vision controllers. The Adept SmartController is designed for use
with Adept SmartModules, the AdeptSix line of robots, and the Adept sMI6 Module for
the SmartMotion product. All Adept SmartControllers offer known scalability and
support for IEEE 1394-based digital I/O and general motion expansion modules.
Adept SmartController CS
The IEEE 1394 interface is the foundation of Adept SmartServo, Adept's new distributed
controls architecture supporting the new family of Adept products, including Adept
SmartModules, AdeptSix robots, Adept Cobra s600 and s800 robots, and the Adept
SmartMotion product.
The Adept SmartController CS is configured for standard applications that do not require
vision or conveyor belt tracking. The controller features several high-speed
communication interfaces, including Fast Ethernet, IEEE 1394, and DeviceNet. The
SmartController offers known scalability and support for Adept’s IEEE 1394-based digital
I/O and general motion expansion modules.
Adept SmartController CX
The Adept SmartController CX is a high performance motion and vision controller. It has
the same capability as the SmartController CS, plus additional support for an integrated
vision option, a conveyor tracking option, a more powerful processor, an additional pair
of serial ports, and a second pair of IEEE 1394 network ports.
NOTE: The information in this manual applies to both the CS and CX
models, except where differences are specifically noted.
sDIO Expansion Module
The sDIO expansion module provides 32 optical isolated digital inputs and 32 optical
isolated outputs and also includes an IEEE 1394 interface.
Customers can access I/O signals from the following points using these products:
• the XDIO connector on a SmartController
• the DeviceNet connector on a SmartController
• the DIO X1-X4 connectors on an sDIO
• a Remote I/O (RIO) device on a SmartModule