Following significant increase in demand for PROFIBUS products due to its overwhelming success with over 30 million nodes now installed worldwide, the The PROFIBUS Competence Centre at MMU has introduced a one-day course for product manufacturers and engineering companies that want to jump on the bandwagon and develop PROFIBUS products. This one-day course provides an overview of the technology plus details of the communication protocol, tools and methods to get you started correctly on development of your own PROFIBUS products. It covers in detail:

The development cycle
DP-V0, DP-V1, DP-V2
Understanding and creation of GSD files
The certification process
Understanding telegrams
Asics
Development Tools

Scheduled for 20th October, the first of these courses will be presented in collaboration with ProfiChip, a leading provider of semiconductor solutions for industrial control and communication. To help them get started with their projects, ProfiChip offers course attendees a special discount of 10% off their evaluation kits and 30% off their firmware.

MMU plans to offer more of these courses in conjunction with other PROFIBUS interface specialists and development tool suppliers.

For further details of this and other training opportunities available from The PROFIBUS Group, readers should contact This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it or call Registration on 00 44 20 7293 8018. Full details of all courses are also on the web at http://sn.im/profibustrainingcourses