3. Fieldbus Integration With Experion System 
3.2. Control Integration 
R400  Experion PKS Series A Fieldbus Interface Module User's Guide  51 
July 2010  Honeywell 
CM
CPM/CEE
FIM
Fieldbus
Device
FIM
Digital
Input
Transducer
Device
Control
OUT
DI[1]
DO[1]
CEE = Control Execution Environment
FIM = Fieldbus Interface Module
DOC = Digital Output Channel 
CM = Control Module
CPM = Control Processor Module
DOC
SO
 
 
Figure 9  Integration of fieldbus device digital input signal with Control 
Builder control strategy 
 
Fieldbus Discrete Input data manipulation 
Whe
n the OUT from the fieldbus Discrete Input function block is wired to the DI[n] 
input for a DEVCTL function block, the Control Builder creates a CEE discrete input 
agent to handle the digital input from the fieldbus block. The block-like discrete input 
agent maps the data structure (DS-66) of the OUT parameter to the Experion DI[n] with 
status parameter. It interprets the value portion in fieldbus terms as a Boolean for 
Discrete Input (DI) block and as the appropriate multi-state representation for special 
fieldbus Device Control (DC) block. The value is converted and represented in Control 
Builder at the output.  
The discrete input agent accepts inputs from either a published parameter or a 
client/server read parameter, depending upon the communication method used.