Fieldbus Technology Overview

Fisher-Rosemount199823 pp.Free

Keywords Fieldbus

This document gives a technical overview of the Foundation^TMfieldbus.

After an introduction to the benefits of fieldbus, the Foundation^TMfieldbus technology is described. Topics covered include the physical layer,communications stack, data link layer, fieldbus access sub-layer, fieldbus message specification (FMS), User application-blocks, system management and device descriptions.

The final technical section discusses the system configuration.

Overall this document is nicely presented and easy to read. It should be noted that the information presented in the document may not be accurate, as written in the disclaimer.