The NodeBuilder FX Development NodeBuilder FX Tool is a complete hardware and Development Tool software platform for creating A Complete Platform for Developing, Debugging, LONWORKS devices based on the Testing, and Maintaining Series 5000 and 3100 Neuron LONWORKS Devices Processors and the Series 5000 and 3100 Smart Transceivers. You can use the NodeBuilder tool to create devices such as VAV controllers, thermostats, washing machines, card-access readers, refrigerators, lighting ballasts, blinds, and pumps. These devices can be used in a variety of systems including building and lighting controls, factory automation, energy management, and transportation systems. Whether youre building large or small control network devices, the NodeBuilder FX tool makes your project faster, easier, and more affordable. FEATURES DESCRIPTION Available in free topology (FT), power Code editor lets you easily edit device There are four NodeBuilder line (PL), classroom, and software- application source code. FX products: only versions. Project manager lets you manage NodeBuilder FX/FT Development Tool. FT and PL versions include a device denfi itions and build Includes development hardware for hardware platform (PL) or platforms applications. the FT 5000 Smart Transceiver. (FT) for initial application development ISI library lets you create devices that NodeBuilder FX/PL Development Tool. and testing. install themselves without the use of Includes development hardware for FT and PL versions include sample an installation tool. Power Line Smart Transceivers. I/O hardware with a 4x20 character LonMaker Turbo Integration Tool NodeBuilder FX/FT Classroom Edition. LCD display for easy I/O prototyping installs development and production Educational use only (includes FT 5000 and testing. devices into networks, simplifying development hardware). CD version available for use with network integration and testing. NodeBuilder FX CD. Software-only custom hardware. LonScanner Protocol Analyzer LNS solution (for those who dont need Neuron C Version 2.2 compiler Turbo Edition captures, analyzes, development hardware, such as supports up to 254 network variables characterizes, and displays network NodeBuilder 3.1 users, or for developers for Series 5000 and 3100 chips, packets so you can pinpoint who want to upgrade from the Mini FX and supports interrupts for Series network or device faults and Evaluation Kit to the NodeBuilder FX 5000 chips. identify potential solutions. Development Tool). Resource editor displays available LNS Device Plug-in Framework All four products include a complete func tional prolfi e s, net work variable Developers Kit lets you create suite of device development software t ype s, and configuration proper t y and redistribute LNS plug-ins written for Windows Vista or Windows XP. types, and can be used to create new in a Microsoft .NET programming The following table summarizes the func tional prolfi e s and t ype s. language such as C or Visual components in each product. Basic.NET, making your devices Code wizard automatically generates easier to inst all and configure. Neuron C code to implement an easy- to-integrate device interface. 1positive or negative level), the high- client-server architecture with an easy- FX/FT and FX/FT performance on-chip timer and counter to-use Microsoft Visio user interface. FX/PL FX Component Classroom units, and a dedicated, configurable, Its compatible with a number of LNS Develop- CD Edition ment Tools high-performance periodic system timer. plug-ins, including the NodeBuilder Project Manager. NodeBuilder The NodeBuilder FX software includes Development the following tools: LonScanner Protocol Analyzer Tool CD LNS Turbo Edition NodeBuilder Resource Editor. View Development The LonScanner Protocol Analyzer is a Platforms* st andard t ype s and func tional prolfi e s, software package that provides network and create user- denfi ed t ype s and LonMaker diagnostic tools that you can use to Integration Tool prolfi e s if the st andard re source lfi e s observe, analyze, and diagnose the Professional dont include the resources you need. Edition CD behavior of installed Lno Wskro networks, (includes Microsoft NodeBuilder Code Wizard. Use a including networks with devices youve Visio 2003 drag-and-drop interface to create your built with the NodeBuilder tool. You can Professional) devices interface, and then automati- use the LonScanner tool with the U10 or LonMaker cally generate Neuron C source code U20 USB network interface included with Integration Tool that implements the device interface Standard Edition the NodeBuilder FX/FT and FX/PL Tools, CD (includes and creates the framework for your and you can also use it with other network Microsoft Visio device application. The code wizard interfaces including all layer-2 OpenLDV 2003 Standard) saves days of development for every compatible network interfaces or an IP-852 LonScanner new device. (ISO/IEC 14908-4) network interface. Protocol Analyzer LNS Turbo NodeBuilder Editor. Edit the Neuron C FT 5000 EVB Evaluation Board Edition CD source code generated by the code Two FT 5000 EVB Evaluation Boards are U10/U20 USB wizard to create your devices application. included with the NodeBuilder FX/FT Network Interface NodeBuilder Debugger. Debug your Development Tool and the NodeBuilder * T he NodeBuilder FX/FT Development application with a source-level view of FX/FT Classroom Edition. The FT 5000 Tool and Classroom Edition include two your application code as it executes. FT 5000 EVBs. The NodeBuilder FX/PL EVB is a complete Series 5000 Lno Wskro Development Tool Full Edition includes NodeBuilder Project Manager. Build device that you can use to evaluate one LTM10A Hardware Platform, one and download your application image the Lno Wskro 2.0 platform and create NodeBuilder Gizmo 4 I/O Board, and one to your development platform or to Lno Wskro 2.0 devices. The FT 5000 EVB Lno Wskro Module Application Interface your own device hardware. includes an FT 5000 Smart Transceiver (for development of PL devices). with an external 10MHz crystal (you ISI Developers Kit. Develop ISI NodeBuilder Software can adjust the internal system clock devices that use the Interoperable The NodeBuilder software lets you speed from 5MHz to 80MHz), an FT-X3 Self-Installation (ISI) protocol to create, debug, test, and maintain communication transformer, 64KB install and organize themselves into applications for Lno Wskro devices ex ternal serial EEPROM and afl sh memor y networks automatically or at the push based on an Echelon Series 5000 or devices, and a 3.3V power source. of a button, all without the use of a 3100 Neuron Processor or an Echelon separate installation tool. Series 5000 or 3100 Smart Transceiver. Using the NodeBuilder FX software, you LNS Device Plug-in Framework write your device applications using Developers Kit. Develop and the Neuron C Version 2.2 programming redistribute LNS plug-ins written in a language, a high-level language based Microsoft .NET programming language on ANSI C with extensions to simplify such as C or Visual Basic .NET. network communication, hardware I/O, Plug-ins make your devices much and event-driven processing. Version 2.2 easier to inst all and configure. LNS is of the Neuron C language supports up the standard network operating system to 254 static network variables and 127 for managed Lno Wskro networks. network variable aliases per device for LonMaker Integration Tool Turbo Edition devices based on a Series 5000 or 3100 An integral part of the NodeBuilder FX chip with Neuron Firmware version 16 or Development Tool, the LonMaker tool newer, subject to available memory. is a software package for designing, installing, and maintaining Lno Wskro For Series 5000 applications, Neuron C control networks. This single tool manages Version 2.2 also supports application- all phases of a networks life cycle, from specicfi interrupt handlers and a hardware the initial design and commissioning semaphore that can be used for interrupt to the ongoing operation. Based on task synchronization. Interrupt sources Echelons LNS network operating system, include signals on any of the 12 I/O pins the LonMaker tool combines a powerful (rising edge, falling edge, either edge, FT 5000 EVB Evaluation Board 2