RMCLink Component Overview

The RMCLink component enables the user to directly access any of Delta Motion's RMC family of motion controllers from numerous programming languages and applications. Supporting serial or Ethernet communications, RMCLink provides full functionality to read and write registers, read bits, and issue commands to the RMC75, RMC150, RMC200 and RMC100 controllers.

The RMCLink installation includes example projects for many programming languages.

RMCLink Interfaces

To support multiple programming languages, RMCLink contains three different interfaces. The interface you use depends on which programming language you are using.

The table below lists which interface should be used for various programming languages and applications.

RMCLink Interface	Programming Languages and Applications
RMCLink.Interop .NET Assembly	Visual Basic .NET Visual C# Visual C++/CLI
RMCLink COM Component	VBA (Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Word, etc.) LabVIEW (RMC75, 150, and 200, LabVIEW drivers are available without RMCLink. The RMC100 LabVIEW driver requires RMCLink.) MATLAB PHP Python JScript VBScript Visual Basic 5.0/6.0
RMCLink C++ Wrapper Class	Visual C++

Supported RMC Communication Ports

RMCLink can communicate via Ethernet, serial RS-232 or USB. The table below lists the ports on the RMCs that it can communicate with.

RMC/CPU	RMCLink Supported Ports
RMC75E	10/100 Ethernet port
RMC75E	USB port
RMC75S	RS-232 Monitor port Note: If the serial settings on the second RMC75S RS-232 port are identical to the fixed RS-232 Monitor port settings, RMCLink can communicate with that port.
RMC75P	RS-232 Monitor port
RMC150E	10/100 Ethernet on the RMC150E CPU module
RMC150E	USB port on the RMC150E CPU module
RMC200	10/100 Ethernet on the CPU40 module
RMC200	USB port on the CPU40 module
RMC100	ENET port on the RMC100-ENET module
RMC100	RS-232 Monitor port on the RMC100 CPU module

Example Projects

RMCLink includes a rich set of fully-functioning example projects for many programming languages. These example projects will help you quickly get started on your project. When you install RMCLink, the example projects will be installed in a Samples folder under the RMCLink install location. The default sample folder will be C:\Program Files\RMCLink\Samples\.

The How Do I > Programming Languages section of this help file includes walk-throughs for creating projects using RMCLink for many programming languages. The projects created by these walkthroughs are also included in the RMCLink example projects.