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//                          SST Profibus Gen III (PB3)
//                                CD Release 8.12
//-----------------------------------------------------------------------------

Content:

1. Firmware Information
2. Software Information
3. Hardware Information

// CD Release 8.12, December 2008
 - Updated Profibus OPC Data Access Server
 - Updated SST Profibus configuration Tool
 - Updated the SST-PB3-PCIe-2 Hardware Reference Guide

Main features
   - Range of NIC form factor based on Profibus Generation 3 :  PCI,PCIe-2 ISA, PC104 and VME available
   - DPV1 embedded in the Profibus Generation 3 card (firmware feature)
   - Application host could support the use of several Profibus Generation 3 cards
   - Profibus-DP protocol features: DPV0 Master/Slave Class 1 & 2, DPV1 Master Class 1 & 2
   - Full DPRAM access
   - Driver for Windows operating system 32 bits (Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows 2000)
   - Console configuration tool
   - Diagnostic tool
   - High layer access: library functions, OPC server DA 3.0
   - CommDTM Profibus DPV1 Products (it has separated installation)
   - Documentation 

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// PFB3.SS3  and PFB3-2.SS3
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PFB3.SS3 V1.12.0.0
PFB3-2.SS3 v2.1.1.0 (PFB3-PCI  and PFB3-PCIe 2 channel card) 

Known Issues:
NCR 1568 Network options Repeater, FMS devices, Stay Offline on Error are never saved in flash
NCR 4032 Fails to update output data on first scan when Data Coherency is enabled on PFB3-PCI Card w/ high baud rates
NCR 5426 (on 2 channel card) Extended Parameter Offsets in Master Control Block get set passed the limit of 48K with some configurations


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//-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
// Pfbman32.dll
//-----------------------------------------------------------------------------

V1.59.1.0
- Add support for the PFB3 2 channel card

//-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
// Sspfb32.dll
//-----------------------------------------------------------------------------

V1.74.4
- Add support for the PFB3 2 channel card

//-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
// Profibus Configuration Console
//-----------------------------------------------------------------------------

v1.4.6.0
- Added support for the expanded I/O 2-channel cards
- Added support for 48 kB of resources in the master control block pages for expanded I/O 2-channel cards to allow for the maximum number of user parameters for a full network.
- Added support OEM license
- Added support Windows Vista.
- Fixed the ALARM_SEQUENCE_MODE_COUNT entry in DPGeneric.xml (v1.0.0.7), as it didnt match the Profibus GSD specification.
- Changed CGsdAnalyzer::ParamSort::Load() so that it gives a warning and not an error (and doesnt stop parsing) when it finds an overlapping user parameter area. The parameter that is defined last in the GSD file takes control of the bits associated with the area.
- Fixed NCR 5384     The Console was failing if more than 256 topics were defined in the configuration in total for all cards.
- Fixed NCR 5341     The Console was allowing modules to be added that went beyond the 0x3FFF (0x7FFF for expanded I/O) DPM memory size limitation.
- Updated the master.xml file so that the default baud rate is now correctly set to 12 Mbits/s.



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// Profibus OPC Data Access Server
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v1.3.6.0
- Added support for the expanded I/O 2-channel cards
- Added support OEM license
- Added support Windows Vista
- Fixed NCR 5160 Updated OPC Foundation redistributable to v3.00.102 to fix an issue with OpcEnum not getting installed as an NT service.
- Fixed NCR 5446 The Rx and Tx pointers into the input and output buffers for each station did not take into account the initial Rx/Tx byte offsets (the station with the lowest offset for each), so the pointers were pointing to the wrong addresses.
- Fixed made to pass the OPC Foundation compliance test tool version 2.00.13.1146 with following issues:
DA 2.05
- IOPCItemProperties::GetItemProperties() test case #3 (warning): Fixed to return the correct result code of E_INVALIDARG if the item name string is empty.
- IOPCBrowseServerAddressSpace::BrowseOPCItemIDs() test case #11 (error): Changed so that the filter function is case-sensitive, which is the default method used by the Visual Basic LIKE function (binary mode is default). Note that the filter is vendor-specific, but having it differ from the LIKE function only by being case-insensitive could cause confusion, so it has been changed to be the same.
- IOPCGroupStateMgt::SetState() test case #18 (error): Fixed so that the thread that sends the OnDataChange callback isnt immediately woken up, but rather it is reset so that the next callback wont occur until the newly set update rate has elapsed.

DA 3.0
- IOPCBrowse::Browse() test case #12 (error): Fixed so that the continuation point string is cleared when there are no more elements to be returned.
- IOPCGroupStateMgt::SetState() test case #18 (error): Fixed so that the thread that sends the OnDataChange callback isnt immediately woken up, but rather it is reset so that the next callback wont occur until the newly set update rate has elapsed.

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// Profibus Diagnostic tool
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v1.2.0.0
- Added support for the expanded I/O 2-channel cards.

//-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
// Windows 2000/XP/Vista Kernel Mode Driver
//-----------------------------------------------------------------------------

// Version 1.2.37.0

//-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
// SSCFG32.EXE (Direct-Link Configuration Tool)
//-----------------------------------------------------------------------------

// Version 2.1.1.1

- Added support Windows Vista


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Known issues:
- None


