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Missing link from Fieldbus to Ethernet
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National Instruments product story
Edited by the Engineeringtalk editorial team
Nov 5, 2003
Industrial process engineers can now extend plant-wide control applications to include Ethernet capabilities with the FBUS-HSE/H1 Fieldbus high-speed Ethernet linking device.
Industrial process engineers can now extend plant-wide control applications to include Ethernet capabilities with the new National Instruments FBUS-HSE/H1 Fieldbus high-speed Ethernet (HSE) linking device.
Using the linking device, engineers can fully integrate sensor, process, discrete, hybrid and batch control subsystems with higher level supervisory applications.
The HSE/HI linking device connects 31.25Kbit/s H1 segments to an HSE network running at 10Mbit/s or higher, making it easier for engineers to build high-performance, integrated applications, such as in manufacturing, refinery, chemical and pharmaceutical plant installations.
With this device, engineers can implement an open architecture for process automation systems.
This integrated approach is ideal for large process automation plants because engineers can build temperature, level and flow control, that require multiple H1 transitioning devices connected through an Ethernet network.
National Instruments also released the NI PCI-FBUS/2 plug and play PCI board, which engineers can use to connect Foundation Fieldbus devices more easily to new desktop PCs.
The PCI-FBUS/2 eliminates challenges of configuring AT-FBUS boards with new computers that no longer offer ISA slots as a standard feature.
Now, engineers can plug the PCI-FBUS board into any new desktop with a PCI slot and more easily run software without using a complex interface card.
The new NI-FBUS 3.0 software is tightly integrated with LabView 7 Express through the new Fieldbus VI library, which eliminates the inconvenience of low-performance, complex OPC servers currently used to call Foundation Fieldbus devices.
The new NI-FBUS 3.0 software supports the new FBUS-HSE/H1 and PCI-FBUS/2 Fieldbus interfaces and it includes a new communications manager and a Fieldbus configurator.
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