Contents
xiv Experion PKS Series A Fieldbus Interface Module User's Guide R400
Honeywell July 2010
8.8 Preparing Fieldbus Device for a Move or Software Migration ................343
Migrating Fieldbus device type to a release supporting Enable Block Offnet Diagnostic Alarm
.......................................................................................................................................... 347
8.9 Interpreting Component LED Indications .................................................348
CIOM-A FIM LED indications ............................................................................................ 348
8.10 FIM Self-Test Diagnostic Codes .............................................................349
8.11 Checking Fieldbus Device Calibration...................................................358
8.12 Using Fieldbus Methods Manager..........................................................359
Prerequisites ..................................................................................................................... 359
Launching Methods Manager............................................................................................ 360
Interacting with Methods Manager .................................................................................... 360
9. EXPERION PKS HOST REGISTRATION ................................. 365
9.1 Overview.......................................................................................................365
New features ..................................................................................................................... 365
Conditional support for FF devices.................................................................................... 367
EDDL................................................................................................................................. 368
DD View tab ...................................................................................................................... 368
Following are some of the considerations for FF blocks with DD View. ............................ 373
Persistent data handling.................................................................................................... 375
10. APPENDIX A ............................................................................. 377
10.1 Fieldbus Technology ...............................................................................377
Open communications architecture................................................................................... 377
Communication layer description ...................................................................................... 378
10.2 Standard Function Blocks.......................................................................381
Overview ........................................................................................................................... 383
About modes of operation ................................................................................................. 384
Analog Input block............................................................................................................. 386
Analog Output block.......................................................................................................... 388
Bias/Gain block ................................................................................................................. 390
Control Selector block ....................................................................................................... 393
Discrete Input block........................................................................................................... 396
Discrete Output block........................................................................................................ 397
Manual Loader block......................................................................................................... 400
Proportional/Derivative block............................................................................................. 402
Ratio block ........................................................................................................................ 412
10.3 Device Descriptions and Block Parameters..........................................416
About Device Descriptions ................................................................................................ 416
Device Description Language ........................................................................................... 416
Device Description infrastructure....................................................................................... 416