R400 Experion PKS Series A Fieldbus Interface Module User's Guide 365
July 2010 Honeywell
9. Experion PKS Host Registration
9.1 Overview
With R400, Experion PKS is a registered host with Foundation Fieldbus organization
(www.fieldbus.org). This registration process enables the users of Experion to benefit
from the additional features that are added as part of the registration.
The Foundation Fieldbus is Non-profitable organization consisting of leading process
end users and automation companies, Within the Fieldbus Foundation, end users,
manufacturers, universities and research organizations work together to develop an
automation infrastructure that provides process integrity.
New features
The following new
features are supported in EPKS R400.
Conditional evaluation support for Fieldbus function blocks in Control Builder
Support for EDDL (Electronic Device Description Language) and visualization
constructs
Support for Persistent Data Handling
As part of the Experion Host registration with FF, following is a complete list of features
supported by Experion.
Feature Description
Foundation H1 Device Support
H1 Device Address
Assignment
The capability of setting or clearing the H1 link address
of an FF device. Devices with cleared addresses
appear at available temporary addresses. They are
not actually set to those addresses.
Configuration of Link
Master Devices
The capability to prepare and write (Network
Management Information Bus) NMIB and (System
Management Information Bus) SMIB parameters
associated with link mastership.
H1 Physical Device Tag
Assignment
The capability to set or clear the physical device tag of
an FF device.
Convert Link Master to
Basic Device
The capability to change FF devices from Link Master
to Basic class.
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