FX16 Master Controller Technical Bulletin 101
FX Builder
Figure 87: FX Builder Tool
Use FX Builder to build the control application that the FX16 controller
executes when downloaded into the controller. You also use FX Builder
to generate a network profile through which the controller
communicates to other devices on a control system network. You can
select the network profile for the N2 Open protocol or for the LON
protocol.
For the FX16 Master Controller, you can develop two types of control
application:
• Stand-alone applications where the application runs only in the
FX16 Master Controller.
• Distributed applications where the FX16 Master Controller is the
master of a small network of up to 16 Facility Explorer controllers
acting as slaves. The relevant parts of the application is distributed
and runs in the individual controllers, but the FX16 Master
Controller coordinates the whole application, which is also the
network interface for the entire distributed application.
The functions of the distributed application are defined in the FX16
Master Controller and are distributed to run as follows.
• structure of application with the definition and network addresses of
the slave devices - master.
• network profile of distributed system (N2 Open or LON) - master
• control application and application profiles - master and slaves
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