Revision 2.0 FOUNDATION Fieldbus ST 700 Pressure Transmitter User's Guide Page vii
Terms and Acronyms
Term Definition
Alarm The detection of a block leaving a particular state and when it returns back to
that state.
Analog Input (function
block) One of the standard function blocks define by the Foundation Fieldbus
AP Absolute Pressure
Application A software program that interacts with blocks, events and objects. One
application may interface with other applications or contain more than one
application.
AWG American Wire Gauge
Block A logical software unit that makes up one named copy of a block and the
associated parameters its block type specifies. It can be a resource block,
transducer block or a function block.
Configuration (of a
system or device)
A step in system design: selecting functional units, assigning their locations
and identifiers, and defining their interconnections.
Device A physical entity capable of performing one or more specific functions.
Examples include transmitters, actuators, controllers, operator interfaces.
Device Description Description of FBAPs within a device. Files that describe the software objects
in a device, such as function blocks and parameters. The DD binary are
created by passing DD source files through a standard tool called a tokenizer.
Device Description
Language
A standardized programming language (similar to C) used to write device
description source files.
Device Tag The Physical Device Tag of the device as specified in the Foundation Fieldbus
specifications.
DP Differential Pressure
EEPROM Electrically Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory
EMI Electromagnetic Interference
Event An instantaneous occurrence that is significant to scheduling block execution
and to the operational (event) view of the application.
Field Device A fieldbus-compatible device that contains and executes function blocks.
Foundation Fieldbus Communications protocol for a digital, serial, two-way system which
interconnects industrial field equipment such as sensors, actuators and
controllers.
FTA Field Termination Assembly
Function Block An executable software object that performs a specific task, such as
measurement or control, with inputs and outputs that connect to other function
blocks in a standard way.
Function Block
Application Process
The part of the device software that executes the blocks (function, transducer,
or resource blocks).
GP Gauge Pressure
HP High Pressure (also, High Pressure side of a Differential Pressure Transmitter)
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