Microchip Certified Training - An Introduction to Ethernet and TCP/IP for Industrial and Embedded Systems — A 5-day Course

 Closed In-House Course

Synopsis

Ethernet controller chips are relatively cheap and widely available. This makes it possible to design embedded systems with ethernet communications capabilities. Such systems can be connected together via local area networks and accessed remotely via wide area networks. Improved fault tolerance in Industrial Ethernet Networks can be obtained by using ethernet switches with redundant connections and special failure recovery protocols. To be proficient in using TCP/IP and Ethernet technology a good understanding of ethernet technology, as well as a thorough understanding of the various protocols that make up the TCP/IP family of protocols is essential.

This course is a practical course - in the sense that students will be shown how to configure and manage IP networks and how to use a protocol analyzer - both to better understand how the protocols work, and for trouble-shooting purposes.

Course Objectives

After attending this course you will be able to:

• Understand the basic aspects of ethernet at the link and physical layers - including standard ethernet switches as well as Industrial Ethernet switches
• Know how to configure IPv4 addresses and subnet masks
• Understand how to set up DHCP, DNS, static and dynamic routing
• Understand the Address Resolution Protocols (ARP) and the ICMP Protocol ( which forms the basis of 'ping' ) and how to use these protocols in troubleshooting
• Know how to use a protocol analyser to observer protocols in action as well as for troubleshooting purposes.

Intended Audience

This course is for engineers who have relatively little experience of networking, or who need to update their knowledge.

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Course Contents

Layered approaches to networking - the IDS-OSI 7-layer model

Physical and logical network topologies

Media access control protocols (CSMA/CD, CSMA/CA, token ring, token bus ...)

Link layer protocols - 802.2

Ethernet

• Ethernet II, 802.3
• hubs
• switches - and the spanning tree algorithm
• why the spanning tree algorithm is not appropriate for certain time-critical industrial applications
• media (coax, twisted pair, optical fibre ...) - (10 BaseT, 10BaseFL, 10Base5, 10 Base 2, 100 Base TX, 100 Base FX, 1000 Base T, 1000 Base X ...)
• radio ethernet (802.11)

Bridging

• RS232 to Ethernet
• Profibus to Ethernet
• CAN bus to Ethernet

Network layer IP

• ARP, IP addressing and subnet masks
• CIDR and private IP addressing
• Routers , NAT, Layer 3 switches
• ICMP , PPP

Transport layer - UDP, TCP

Industrial Ethernet Protocols and Standards

• ODVA and Ethernet/IP (Industrial Protocol)
• Fieldbus Foundation - HSE
• Interbus System, Modbus TCP, ProfiNET
• Resilient Redundant Network Topologies
  • Gigabit rings (Garrett S Ring)
  • self healing topology (Max Turbo Ring)
  • fast ethernet redundant ring (OnTime Networks)
  • hiper ring (Hirschman)

QoS approaches

• priority features of ethernet switches - priority tagging (IEEE 802.1p, IEEE 802.1Q)
• Layer 3 switching and IP Type of Service (TOS)
• Layer 4 switching
• Lessons from VoIP
• Real Time Ethernet Protocol (Rether)

Application layer protocols and services

• FTP and TFTP, DHCP
• SMTP, HTTP
• BOOTP, DNS