ABB Flow-X/S User Manual

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Abbreviations
Throughout this document the following abbreviations are used:
ADC
Analog to Digital converter
AI
Analog Input
AO
Analog Output
API
Application Programming Interface
An interface that allows an application to interact with another application or operating system, in our case, Spirit
IT
Flow-X. Most of the Spirit
IT
Flow-X API is implemented through Excel worksheet functions.
ASCII
American Standard Code for Information Interchange.
A set of standard numerical values for printable, control, and special characters used by PCs and most other computers. Other commonly used
codes for character sets are ANSI (used by Windows 3.1+), Unicode (used by Windows 95 and Windows NT), and EBCDIC (Extended Binary-Coded
Decimal Interchange Code, used by IBM for mainframe computers).
CPU
Central Processing Unit
DAC
Digital to Analog Converter
DCS
Distributed Control System
DDE
Dynamic Data Exchange
A relatively old mechanism for exchanging simple data among processes in MS-Windows.
DI
Digital Input
DO
Digital Output
EGU
Engineering Units
EIA
Electrical Industries Association
FET
Field Effect Transistor
GC
Gas Chromatograph
GUI
Graphical User Interface
HART
Highway Addressable Remote Transducer.
A protocol defined by the HART Communication Foundation to exchange information between process control devices such as transmitters and
computers using a two-wire 4-20mA signal on which a digital signal is superimposed using Frequency Shift Keying at 1200 bps.
HMI
Human Machine Interface.
Also referred to as a GUI or MMI. This is a process that displays graphics and allows people to interface with the control system in graphic form.
It may contain trends, alarm summaries, pictures, and animations.
I/O
Input/Output
IEEE
Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers
ISO
International Standards Organization
MMI
Man Machine Interface (see HMI)
MIC
Machine Identification Code. License code of Spirit
IT
Flow-X which uniquely identifies you computer.
OEM
Original Equipment Manufacturer
P&ID
Piping and Instrumentation Diagram
PC
Personal Computer
PCB
Printed Circuit Board
PLC
Programmable Logic Controller.
A specialized device used to provide high-speed, low-level control of a process. It is programmed using Ladder Logic, or some form of structured
language, so that engineers can program it. PLC hardware may have good redundancy and fail-over capabilities.
RS232
EIA standard for point to point serial communications in computer equipment
RS422
EIA standard for two- and four-wire differential unidirectional multi-drop serial
RS485
EIA standard for two-wire differential bidirectional multi-drop serial communications in computer equipment
RTU
Remote Terminal Unit
SCADA
Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition
SQL
Standard Query Language
SVC
Supervisory Computer
TCP/IP
Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol.
Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol. The control mechanism used by programs that want to speak over the Internet. It was
established in 1968 to help remote tasks communicate over the original ARPANET.
TTL
Transistor-Transistor Logic
UART
Universal Asynchronous Receiver & Transmitter
URL
Uniform Resource Locator.
The global address for documents and resources on the World Wide Web.
XML
Extensible Markup Language. A specification for Web
documents that allows developers to create custom tags that enable the definition, transmission, validation and interpretation of data
contained therein.

ABB Flow-X/S Specifications

General

Brand	ABB
Model	Flow-X/S
Category	Measuring Instruments
Language	English