Introduction

Cascade Driver for Hilscher Fieldbus CIF Cards: Version 4.1
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# Chapter 1. Introduction

The Cascade Driver for Hilscher Fieldbus CIF Cards (often called the Cascade CIF Driver) is a device driver program that communicates with Hilscher CIF cards. The driver is available for QNX and Linux and it works with ISA, PCI and PC104 cards. The same driver talks to all Hilscher CIF cards, providing support for: DeviceNet, Profibus, ModbusPlus, ControlNet, CANopen, ASi, SDS, and InterBus.

# 1.1. System Requirements

# QNX 6

- QNX Realtime Platform or QNX 6 (Neutrino 2.2) or later.

# QNX 4

- QNX 4.23A or later.

# Linux

- Linux 2.2.5 or later.

- The SRR IPC kernel module, which includes a synchronous message passing library modeled on the QNX 4 send/receive/reply message-passing API. This module installs automatically, but requires a C compiler for the installation. You can get more information and/or download this module at the Cogent Web Site.

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