OEM Service Package -- FF Communication Board 

Product Overview

Microcyber provides the Foundation fieldbus H1 communication board customized as customer's requirements. 

This solution can upgrade the traditional instrument to Foundation fieldbus instrument rapidly. 

The board supports bus communication, control and integration in fieldbus controller, stack, function block and interface circuit. 

Microcyber can assist customer in passing certification test of Foundation fieldbus and integration test with all kind of DCS system.

Software & Firmware Design and Development is including:

Hardware:

• Support Atmel ARM7 series CPU

• Discrete MAU

• Flash ≥256K

• RAM ≥128K

• Support Link Master

• Support EEROM for data store

• Support asynchrony serial interface, baud rate is changeable

• Support common I/O port

• Power supplier: 9 ～ 32 VDC

• Supply power to customer board according to customer's demand

• Current consumption: ≤ 15mA

• Supply to customer HW: 3V, 10mA or 5V, 6mA

• Support two kind of communication controller 

  *Smar FB3050

  *Microcyber FBC0409

• Intrinsically safety: HW has passed FISCO

• EMC compliance

Software:

• Support function block instantiation

• Registered function blocks: AI, AO, DI,DO, RATIO, PID, BG, ISEL, SC, LLAG

• Customized function blocks

• Supply firmware

• Support LAS functionality

• Execution Time:

• DD version: compliant with last ITK version 5.1.0.

• Capabilities File (CFF): compliant with last ITK version 5.1.0.

Technical Service:

1.Foundation fieldbus ITK Pre-Test

Microcyber provides Foundation Fieldbus ITK Pre-Test environment. The FF Interoperability Test is done for the field device at Microcyber prior to the official Interoperability Test. 

Microcyber explains the results and helps to analyze the errors.

The success of the Foundation Fieldbus ITK Pre-Test shows the official FF Interoperability Test will be passed.

Main technical support:

• Foundation Fieldbus expert guidance

• Minimized certification period

• Use of official test tools

2.Foundation fieldbus interoperability test support

Microcyber provides customers technical support for the Foundation Fieldbus Interoperability Test (ITK) at the Fieldbus Foundation in Austin, USA. 

As part of completed services, Microcyber is supporting:

• Foundation Fieldbus professional guidance

• Request for test offer from Fieldbus Foundation

• Test order at Fieldbus Foundation

• Error analysis

3.Control system integration test support

Microcyber is supporting customer during the performance of control system integration test with ABB, EMERSON, YAKOGAWA, etc.

General Conditions:

There is no a stack license fee.

There is no an annual support fee in first year. Microcyber will provide customer new revision if there are upgrades or modifications to firmware.

Customer should provide a product sample to be used by Microcyber for software development. 

Microcyber should have the product sample within three weeks after the software development agreement is signed.  

Development Schedule Preview: 3 months per device type

Development Procedure