Boards that Need to be Purchased for Certification Testing

[sbsprofi]

I read in the ProductDocumentation.pdf file of the AutomatedRtTester_V2.45.0.2 folder from the PN-Test bundle that "Device B must be one of Scalance X204 IRT/ Scalance X202-2P IRT" and "Device D/E must be an ET200SP or ET200MP". I was not sure if that meant that I would need to purchase these devices on top of buying the TI IDK board, so I called my local Profinet testing center and they gave me an answer which I would like to share here.

They told me the only required device for testing my Profinet device is the TI IDK https://www.ti.com/tool/TMDX654IDKEVM#: ... designing. (sometimes known as the ETS board in the test suite's documentation) tester board from TI which runs the ART tester software from the Profinet Test Bundle. The ETS-IDK board is able to 'simulate' both devices I mentioned earlier when it runs the ART test suite.

Note that a system running Ubuntu Linux is required to do the netload testing.

I was also told that it is recommended to test that your implementation is capable of working with a standard PLC (like a Simatic S7 Profinet Controller for example). Apparently, the tests run during certification testing include a section where a PLC communicates with your Profinet Device, and the PLCs are much more likely to complain or stop working if your Profinet Device implementation is nonconformant in some way.

Additional comments, corrections, and clarifications are welcome - I just wanted to post what I learned.

[Raik.Zachmann]

I read in the ProductDocumentation.pdf file of the AutomatedRtTester_V2.45.0.2 folder from the PN-Test bundle that "Device B must be one of Scalance X204 IRT/ Scalance X202-2P IRT" and "Device D/E must be an ET200SP or ET200MP". I was not sure if that meant that I would need to purchase these devices on top of buying the TI IDK board, so I called my local Profinet testing center and they gave me an answer which I would like to share here.

They told me the only required device for testing my Profinet device is the TI IDK https://www.ti.com/tool/TMDX654IDKEVM#: ... designing. (sometimes known as the ETS board in the test suite's documentation) tester board from TI which runs the ART tester software from the Profinet Test Bundle. The ETS-IDK board is able to 'simulate' both devices I mentioned earlier when it runs the ART test suite.

Note that a system running Ubuntu Linux is required to do the netload testing.

I was also told that it is recommended to test that your implementation is capable of working with a standard PLC (like a Simatic S7 Profinet Controller for example). Apparently, the tests run during certification testing include a section where a PLC communicates with your Profinet Device, and the PLCs are much more likely to complain or stop working if your Profinet Device implementation is nonconformant in some way.

Additional comments, corrections, and clarifications are welcome - I just wanted to post what I learned.

Hi,

regarding the Product Documentation of ART, you are fully right.
The sections about ET200 and Scalance are outdated and were already removed in a newer version. Anyway, thanks for bringing this up.

But the additional components are needed for tests, not executed with ART:

S7 PROFINET Controller/Scalance
- InterOp
- Netload
- HW test
- Manual DHt Test
- MRP InterOp


ET200
- MRP InterOp
- Netload

In case of IRT, a CP1616 PCI card is needed.

Hint:
For netload testing a capable network card is needed, so that the generated load is not limited.

Best regards,
Raik