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DOC. NO: 117995-ICS-PD-UMN-0001 REV.: D DATE: 27.05.2025 PREPARED BY: Ole Morten Haaland USER MANUAL 8-PORT ETHERNET SWITCH REVISION D...
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DOC. NO: 117995-ICS-PD-UMN-0001 REV.: D DATE: 27.05.2025 PREPARED BY: Ole Morten Haaland REVISIONS PUBLISHED REVISION NOTES REVISED BY 27.05.2025 Updated template, reworked structure, added Functional description 14.08.2024 Changed type ID to new 05.10.2023 Added default values 30.05.2023 Issued for release Page 2...
PURPOSE AND SCOPE This document outlines and defines the installation, operation, and maintenance procedures for the Ixys Ethernet Switch PCB. The manual will contain all relevant data and methods to be able to use and maintain the device for its intended purpose.
DOC. NO: 117995-ICS-PD-UMN-0001 REV.: D DATE: 27.05.2025 PREPARED BY: Ole Morten Haaland 2 HEALTH, SAFETY AND ENVIRONMENT 2.1 GENERAL Safety Notes and General Precautions shall be presented to all personnel concerned prior to testing, operation, maintenance, and repair. The operations shall be performed by the responsible engineer/supervisor.
(up to 2.5 Gbps). The switch is capable of being an Ixys Control System (CS) master, stacked physically together with any boards from the Ixys CS range to form a complete control system for any application.
DOC. NO: 117995-ICS-PD-UMN-0001 REV.: D DATE: 27.05.2025 PREPARED BY: Ole Morten Haaland 4 HARDWARE DESCRIPTION 4.1 DRAWING Figure 1 - Dimensions and pinout 4.2 LEDS The POWER LED will light up as soon as the board is powered correctly. The ACTIVITY LED will blink once per second when the application is running correctly.
6.2. Any Ixys CS PCB can be stacked underneath or on top of this PCB through ST1 and ST2 headers. If the switch is used as a stack master, jumper JP1 must be installed to terminate the internal CAN bus.
DOC. NO: 117995-ICS-PD-UMN-0001 REV.: D DATE: 27.05.2025 PREPARED BY: Ole Morten Haaland 5 FUNCTIONAL DESCRIPTION 5.1 GENERAL By default, this product works as a normal Ethernet switch, connecting all ports together. The following sections describe all additional features available. The switch has a water detect input, which can be used to indicate water intrusion.
DOC. NO: 117995-ICS-PD-UMN-0001 REV.: D DATE: 27.05.2025 PREPARED BY: Ole Morten Haaland Figure 3 Status page All configuration is available on the Configuration tab, including the ability to change the switch’s IP address. Figure 4 Basic configuration 5.1.2 COMMUNICATION FAILURE When used as part of a control system, it is usually expected that another device in the system will write desired output states to the switch periodically.
IP address, firmware version, serial number, and allows easy identification. Ixys VJU Studio software will use this to automatically identify the device, but it can also be found manually for instance with Wireshark, or by other applications. 5.1.4 MODBUS TCP/UDP The switch supports the Modbus protocol over TCP and UDP for reading and writing all registers described in section 6.
DOC. NO: 117995-ICS-PD-UMN-0001 REV.: D DATE: 27.05.2025 PREPARED BY: Ole Morten Haaland Figure 6 Switch updater application After an upload has been completed, the switch should be kept powered for a couple of minutes to allow the upgrade to finalize. 5.2 NETWORKING FUNCTIONS 5.2.1 PORT CONFIGURATION By default, all network ports are set up with auto-negotiation, advertising...
DOC. NO: 117995-ICS-PD-UMN-0001 REV.: D DATE: 27.05.2025 PREPARED BY: Ole Morten Haaland Figure 7 Port settings 5.2.2 SFPS The switch is available in variants that supports one or two SFPs in addition to copper ports. SFPs can be used to communicate over fiberoptic cables instead of copper, which enabled longer range, and optionally higher bandwidth.
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DATE: 27.05.2025 PREPARED BY: Ole Morten Haaland VLANs in an Ixys switch is set up with a name and an ID. The ID is compatible with network equipment from other vendors, so a VLAN ID configured on an Ixys switch can be used on equipment from other vendors as well.
DOC. NO: 117995-ICS-PD-UMN-0001 REV.: D DATE: 27.05.2025 PREPARED BY: Ole Morten Haaland 5.2.4 LINK AGGREGATION By using Link aggregation, two or more network links can be used together as one link. This can be used to connect two switches with multiple cables, either fiber or copper, and in that way get double bandwidth between them, as well as redundancy –...
DOC. NO: 117995-ICS-PD-UMN-0001 REV.: D DATE: 27.05.2025 PREPARED BY: Ole Morten Haaland 5.2.5 SPANNING TREE PROTOCOL It’s possible to enable support for the Spanning Tree Protocol (STP) in the switch. This can be useful in cases where there are loops in the network topology, for instance to support redundancy.
DOC. NO: 117995-ICS-PD-UMN-0001 REV.: D DATE: 27.05.2025 PREPARED BY: Ole Morten Haaland For DHCP server functionality to be effective, clients connected must also have a DHCP client enabled. DHCP server configuration is available on the DHCP page on the Configuration tab. Figure 11 DHCP server configuration 5.2.8 MONITORING FUNCTION When debugging or investigating systems, it is sometimes useful to see other...
5.3 STACK MASTER FUNCTION 5.3.1 GENERAL It’s possible to use the Ethernet switch as the master device of an Ixys Control System stack. This makes it possible to build a system of multiple CS PCBs in a stack, which uses the stack headers for communication and power between them.
DOC. NO: 117995-ICS-PD-UMN-0001 REV.: D DATE: 27.05.2025 PREPARED BY: Ole Morten Haaland When the node scan is done, the switch will establish communication with all stacked PCBs, and add them to its list of stack nodes. This list is shown both in the web interface and in Modbus registers (see section 6.5).
DOC. NO: 117995-ICS-PD-UMN-0001 REV.: D DATE: 27.05.2025 PREPARED BY: Ole Morten Haaland Figure 13 Stack configuration 5.3.4 DUMMY NODES Since the exact address of a given stack node’s registers is dependent on what other nodes are in the stack, it can occasionally be useful to add dummy nodes to a stack.
The stack node information will show the current firmware version of all nodes. If a firmware file has been provided by Ixys, upgrading a stack node is possible on the Upgrader page on the Stack tab. First select the node to be upgraded from the drop-down, and then browse to find the firmware file.
DOC. NO: 117995-ICS-PD-UMN-0001 REV.: D DATE: 27.05.2025 PREPARED BY: Ole Morten Haaland 6 REGISTERS The following sections describe all registers that can be read or written either over Modbus or over FINS. 6.1 DATA TYPES The following table describes the data types used. For 32-bit values two Modbus registers are used, where the first is the most significant.
DOC. NO: 117995-ICS-PD-UMN-0001 REV.: D DATE: 27.05.2025 PREPARED BY: Ole Morten Haaland 6.2 HEADER REGISTERS Address Description Default Note Data Type PCB Type Ethernet Switch Type = 45 UINT16 Serial Number Last part of the serial number UINT16 Firmware Version Numeric part of firmware version UINT16 Status...
DOC. NO: 117995-ICS-PD-UMN-0001 REV.: D DATE: 27.05.2025 PREPARED BY: Ole Morten Haaland 6.3 INPUT REGISTERS Input registers are not writable. Address Description Note Data Type Switch Core Unit = 1 °C UINT16 Temperature Switch Ambient Unit = 1 °C UINT16 Temperature Reserved UINT16...
DOC. NO: 117995-ICS-PD-UMN-0001 REV.: D DATE: 27.05.2025 PREPARED BY: Ole Morten Haaland 6.4 OUTPUT REGISTERS All Output registers from 500 to 553 and 800 to 1399 are non-volatile and stored on change except for Port Monitoring and Port Disable that are both reset to default on reboot.
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DOC. NO: 117995-ICS-PD-UMN-0001 REV.: D DATE: 27.05.2025 PREPARED BY: Ole Morten Haaland 1100- Com-fail Config These registers define the 1399 behavior of each output register (500-799) in the event of a communication timeout. 0=Stay as is 1=Set to the value defined in Com-fail State Register (800- 1099) Page 28...
DOC. NO: 117995-ICS-PD-UMN-0001 REV.: D DATE: 27.05.2025 PREPARED BY: Ole Morten Haaland 6.5 STACK NODE INFORMATION The switch itself is always node 0, so the maximum number of additional stack nodes is 17. Address Description Note Data Type 1400-1419 Node Type Type number of node UINT16 1420-1439...
DOC. NO: 117995-ICS-PD-UMN-0001 REV.: D DATE: 27.05.2025 PREPARED BY: Ole Morten Haaland 6.6 STACK NODE SETTINGS Write to registers 1480-1486 first and then trigger the command by increasing register 1487 by one. Completion of command will be indicated by register 1488 set equal to register 1487.
Verify power connections are • Activity LED not according to specifications in blinking section 3.2 and connected as in section 4.3 Faulty PCB Contact Ixys support • No link LED Linked device not Verify linked device is • powered powered...
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