OMRON Fins Driver

Observe these guidelines when working with the OMRON Fins Driver.

Supported controllers

The driver supports OMRON® CJ and CP controller families.

Important: The driver has been tested with CJ2 controllers family.

Controller tags import

You can only import tags from TXT files in the offline mode.

Important:

Before you import tags into FactoryTalk Optix Studio, from CX-Programmer, copy the symbol table into a TXT file.

For more information, refer to the product documentation.

Data types

Table 1. Supported data types
Controller data type FactoryTalk Optix data type Length

BOOL

BOOL

1 BIT

CHANNEL

INT16

2 BYTES

COUNTER

INT16

2 BYTES

WORD

UINT16

2 BYTES

DWORD

UINT32

4 BYTES

LWORD

UINT64

8 BYTES

INT

INT16

2 BYTES

DINT

INT32

2 BYTES

UINT

UINT16

2 BYTES

UINT_BCD

UINT16

2 BYTES

UDINT

UINT32

4 BYTES

UDINT_BCD

UINT32

4 BYTES

LINT

INT64

4 BYTES

ULINT

UINT64

8 BYTES

ULINT_BCD

UINT64

8 BYTES

REAL

FLOAT

4 BYTES

LREAL

DOUBLE

8 BYTES

TIMER

INT16

2 BYTES

STRING

STRING

LENGTH

ARRAY 1 dimensional

Type [dimension]

Table 2. Supported data areas
Controller memory area FactoryTalk Optix memory area Notes

CIO

CIO area

A

Auxiliary area

T

Timer

C

Counter

D

Data Memory

H

Holding area

W

Work area

Ex

EM area CurrentBank

Addresses memory location x in the current bank.

Ex_y

EM area

Addresses memory location y in bank x.

IR

Not supported

DR

Not supported

TK

Not supported