H2-EBC / EBC-F Firmware Revision History

• Added support for F2-16TD1P and F2-16TD2P discrete output modules.

• Corrected issue with H2-EBC and H2-EBC-F that caused it to crash - the red ERR LED would come ON - if certain system functions like 'set the IP address' or 'set Module ID' were sent to the module via a broadcast packet.
  
  Details: If the H2-EBC or H2-EBC-F receives a network broadcast packet that contains a request to perform a device management function like set the IP Address, set the Module ID, etc., the H2-EBC or H2-EBC-F will not process the request. These device management functions must be sent to the H2-EBC or H2-EBC-F in a point-to-point packet or in a directed broadcast packet.

• This change to the common boot loader does not affect the H2-EBC or H2-EBC-F. For a description of this change see the H4-ECOM Revision History.

• This change to the common boot loader does not affect the H2-EBC or H2-EBC-F. For a description of this change see the H2-ECOM Revision History.

• Added support for the new F2-8AD4DA-1 and F2-8AD4DA-2 combination analog input / output modules.

• Fixed an I/O mapping problem when the H2-CTRIO is used in an ERM->EBC configuration. The problem shows up as an I/O mapping discrepancy between what's displayed in CTRIO Workbench and the I/O Map displayed in ERM Workbench.
  
  NOTE: This change requires that you also use an updated version
  of CTRIO Workbench (v2.1.10 or later) to configure the H2-CTRIO.
  
  Technically speaking, the H2-CTRIO module will now be reported as a Type 7 module instead of a Type 5 module.

• Fixed a problem in the H2-EBC & H2-EBC-F so that it will now correctly handle packets with 128 bytes of serial data.

• Decrease the delay time in the boot loader before loading the firmware. We now do the following:
  
  Wait for Link Good + 150ms
  OR
  if No Link Good wait for a total of 2000ms

• H2-EBC can now detect if an H2-CTRIO has crashed after power up.
  
  This requires the H2-CTRIO is at least up to hardware revision 2M or 3G.

• H2-EBC-F now correctly reports itself as the fiber optic version.

• Suppress Broken Transmitter Errors and Unused Channel information for 5 seconds after power up. This is to allow the F2-04THM and F2-04RTD modules enough time to make one pass through their broken transmitter detection loop. Without this delay, all channels initially show up as "bad" and the error must be cleared.

• To make sure that our firmware update utility can 'catch' the EBC in the boot loader, we changed the amount of time the boot loader will wait - listening for the 'stay in the booter commands from the firmware update utility - before loading the OS. We now do the following:
  
  Wait for Link Good + 200ms
  OR
  if No Link Good wait for a total of 2000ms

• Correctly handle parity errors through H2-SERIO module.

• H2-CTRIO outputs not being written when used with Think'nDo or with an ERM.

• Added H2-SERIO support.
• Added Watchdog and Run Mode support for H2-CTRIO to make the CTRIO power up in RUN mode (assuming the CTRIO has a valid configuration).
• Serial port tweaks.

• Updated to support use by ERM (Ethernet Remote Master) modules.
• Initial H2-CTRIO support.

• Fixed problem when using an F2-04AD-2 module in bipolar mode. Depending on the I/O configuration, a negative voltage would generate an unstable digital value.

• Fixed problem with the EBC generating false watchdog timeouts. View the Product Advisory (PDF format ) that describes the problem in more detail.
• Added support for the new analog output modules F2-02DAS-1 and F2-08DA-2.
• For analog modules that have a broken transmitter bit for each channel, we added ability to report these multiple alarms on each scan.

• Added function code (D4) that allows you to specify delay times - in 50Microsecond increments - between individual write operations in a single Ethernet packet. For example, If you want to turn on a point, then turn it off exactly .5ms later, you can do it in one transaction by inserting a delay between the items in the packet.
• Added ability to turn off the Serial port processing by setting the baud rate to 0.
• Added function HEIWriteIONoRead() that will not gather the current IO states for the return packet.

• Changed Ether32.Exe - the update tool - to handle some error conditions. No firmware changes.

• Added IPNetMask field to allow for broadcasting with address that's NOT 255.255.255.255.
• You're no longer allowed to set the IP address to 0.0.0.0

• Initial release.