Moxa Protocol Converter (MPC) Software Engine

Moxa launched the Moxa Protocol Converter (MPC) software engine, providing developers a tool for coordinating the flow of data between a wide range of devices and protocols. Moxa Protocol Converter is designed to establish bi-directional data stream channels between any two of the embedded computer's ports, and loads custom-written drivers (written in C language) that audit the data stream as it flows from one port to the other. Moxa Protocol Converter supports Modbus TCP, Modbus RTU, Modbus ASCII, RFC-2217 and custom/proprietary protocols.

Moxa Protocol Converter (MPC) establish data stream

With Moxa Protocol Converter, developers can establish a communication channel that connects any combination of two channel ports, without needing to write additional programs. Port-to-port communication for any devices is driver programmable. Users can program drivers either by modifying an existing driver or adding a driver to a channel that performs specific tasks. Moxa Protocol Converter is also easily configured with the Windows-based Moxa Device Manager (MDM), a remote management tool for managing Moxa's ready-to-run embedded computers on a local area network (LAN).

Key benefits of Moxa Protocol Converter (MPC):

• Moxa Protocol Converter makes port-to-port communication easy
  Serial and networking communication is built into the Moxa Protocol Converter engine. Users do not need to bother programming at the hardware level. Instead, and instead can easily build channels between ports. A channel is a logical path that connects two physical communication ports, either of which could be a serial port or a network port. Data streams can flow between a serial port and network port, between a LAN port and the same or a different LAN port, or between two serial ports. Without any additional programming on the part of the end-user, the Moxa Protocol Converter engine manages transparent data transmission along a channel that connects any combination of two communication ports.
• Moxa Protocol Converter is driver programmable
  Port-to-port communication is driver programmable. Users can create drivers that perform specific tasks in a channel. A driver can be a “timer” subroutine that queries each serial device periodically, or a program that convert protocols between devices. Most field systems are created by making slight changes to existing systems that are tried and true. By using the Moxa Protocol Converter engine, these changes can be realized almost immediately by either modifying a driver, or adding a driver to a channel. Moxa Protocol Converter supports Modbus TCP, Modbus RTU, Modbus ASCII, and RFC-2217. Moxa Protocol Converter also allows solution developers to add proprietary protocols and applications.

Moxa Device Manager (MDM) is a remote management tool for managing Moxa’s embedded computers on a local area network (LAN). MDM Device Manager helps sys admin to easily handle the embedded computers located at a remote site using a friendly user interface. Moxa Device Manager can be used to manage different models of embedded computer, and embedded computers that use different operating systems, all from one centrally located computer. As long as the individual embedded computers are pre-installed with an MDM agent, they can be recognized and managed by the unified MDM tool from your PC.

Moxa Protocol Converter (MPC) and Moxa Device Manager (MDM) are provided free of charge with Moxa's embedded computers. Users can download them at Moxa's website.

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