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FC5121 | CANopen master/slave card, 1 channel, PCIe® x1

FC5121 | CANopen master/slave card, 1 channel, PCIe® x1

FC5121 | CANopen master/slave card, 1 channel, PCIe® x1

FC5121 | CANopen master/slave card, 1 channel, PCIe® x1

FC5121 | CANopen master/slave card, 1 channel, PCIe® x1

The FC512x PC plug-in cards link the PC (PCI Express®) to a CANopen network. They optionally act as network master or slave. In addition, general CAN messages can be sent or received – without having to bother with CAN frames in the application program. The cards provide a powerful implementation of the protocol, offering many desirable features:

  • All CANopen PDO communication types are supported: event driven, time driven (using an event timer), synchronous, polling.
  • individual monitoring of the process data objects
  • synchronization with the PC controller’s task cycle
  • SDO parameter communication at start-up and runtime
  • emergency message handling
  • Guarding and Heartbeat
  • boot-up according to DS 302
  • powerful parameter and diagnostics interfaces
  • freely configurable error management for each bus user
  • it is possible to read the bus configuration and the node parameters.
  • online bus load display

In TwinCAT, all functions are conveniently available.

Product status:

regular delivery

Product information

Technical dataFC5121
FieldbusCANopen
PC interfacePCI Express® x1
Number of channels1
Data transfer rates10, 20, 50, 100, 125, 250, 500, 800, 1000 kbaud
Bus interface1 x D-sub socket, 9-pin, galvanically decoupled
Termination resistorswitchable
Bit width in the process imagetotal max.: 4 kbyte input and output data
Hardware diagnostics2 LEDs per channel
DriverTwinCAT 2.11 R3 and higher
Dimensions (W x H x D)single slot, approx. 100 mm x 130 mm
Operating temperature0…55°C
Material complianceFC5121
CAS No.7439-92-1
REACH SVHCLead
REACH Annex XVIIcompliant
REACH Annex XIVcompliant
SCIP No.452326a5-3c40-4591-996e-ae8d465f269d
POPcompliant
RoHScompliant with exemption
RoHS exemption6c: Copper alloy with a mass fraction of up to 4% lead, 7c-I: Lead-containing electrical and electronic components in glass and ceramic materials, excluding dielectric ceramics in capacitors
China-RoHSwww.beckhoff.com/china-rohs-ipc
CA Prop65www.beckhoff.com/prop65
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