Foundation Fieldbus technology has rapidly established itself as a viable process industry networking methodology. Of the different protocols available currently on the market, Foundation Fieldbus is the leading product in the process industry. The Smart Instrumentation fieldbus solution is based on H1 Intrinsically Safe Low Speed, 31.25 kb/sec Fieldbus, and supports topologies such as star, trunk/drop, and daisy chain.
The software provides the following features for creating and managing fieldbus projects:
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Fieldbus device tags, which you create in the Instrument Index module, include fieldbus properties such as identification references, address, electrical properties, associated function blocks, and so forth.
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The Fieldbus Tag Number Browser, where you create and manage fieldbus instruments and associate them with appropriate segments. Also, you can generate a validation report for a selected segment.
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Fieldbus connection apparatus and fieldbus bricks, which you create in the Wiring module. You can quickly and easily create fieldbus junction boxes and device panels using the Plug-and- Socket Box Wizard.
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As you build segments, the software verifies that you are following basic connection rules. Later, you can generate reports to verify that you built the segments according to further connection rules, and according to the segment-wide parameter profiles that you applied to each segment.
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Segment wiring diagrams and Fieldbus Loop enhanced reports.
Whenever fieldbus is mentioned in the subsequent topics of the documentation, we
refer to Foundation Fieldbus.