FF Development ToolKit

Fieldbus Development Tool Kit

Product Features:

Customized Foundation Fieldbus Device Development Solutions

We undertake the custom development of various Foundation Fieldbus slave devices, providing complete technical solutions from protocol stack integration and functional module design to product implementation, helping you quickly launch standard-compatible field devices.

Standard Device Description (DD) and FDI Development Services

We provide customized development of device description files (DD) and FDI conforming to Foundation Fieldbus specifications, ensuring your devices can seamlessly connect to mainstream host systems, achieving efficient device management and parameter configuration.

Intrinsically Safe Foundation Fieldbus Communication Board Development

We specialize in the development and design of Foundation Fieldbus communication interface boards, fully meeting stringent environmental requirements such as intrinsic safety and explosion-proof features, providing hardware assurance for the safe and reliable operation of your equipment in hazardous areas.

One-Stop Foundation Fieldbus Registration Pre-Test Services

We provide a full-process service from test plan development and pre-test execution to problem diagnosis and optimization, helping you significantly improve product maturity, quickly obtain FieldComm Group registration, and shorten the time to market.

System-level Foundation Fieldbus device integration testing and verification

We provide integration testing services between devices and systems to verify their interoperability, network performance, and long-term stability in real industrial environments, ensuring your devices can operate stably in the field.

Hardware:

• EMC certification and intrinsic safety certification

• FF physical layer conformance test

• Support Atmel ARM7 series CPU

• Discrete MAU

• Flash ≥256K

• RAM ≥128K

• Support stable data memory

• Support asynchrony serial interface, baud rate is changeable

• Support common I/O port

• Power supplier: 9 ～ 32 VDC

• Current consumption: ≤ 15mA

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

• Support two kind of communication controller 

      *Smar FB3050

      *Microcyber FBC0409

Software:

• Support Multi2000 compiler 

• Support operating system transplantation

       --- Nucleus PLUS is used

• FF technical data：

• *Communication stack—FF conformance test

• *Function block—FF interoperability test

• *Standard FMS and SM service

• *Link Master function

• *Transducer block

• *Standard function block and advanced function block

• *Flexible function block

• *DD source file, CFF file and function block source file 

• *Standard function block interface

• Profibus PA technical data:

• *DP slave function

• *Compatible with DP、DPV and DPV2

• *Application layer interface

• *Standard function block interface

• *GSD file and function block source file

Development explanation

The toolkit provides：

• Hardware schematic diagram，PCB diagram

• Device capacity file（CFF）description

• Source code for device description 

• DDL language

• Function block source code（C language）

• Communication stack library

• *Library file

• *Header

• *User interface function

• Interface library for function block

• *Library file

• *Header

• *User interface function

• Operating system interface

• Source code for driving communication controller（C language）

User needs to have:

• ARM integration development tool

• FF Tokenizer DD development tool（including standard DD library and compiler）V2..0 upwards

• ARM emluator

• Testing and debugging environment

Development Procedure