Basis For Using Intelligent Field Devices - Siemens SIMATIC PCS 7 Operating Manual

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2.4 Basis for using intelligent field devices

Questions on devices and GSD files
Please get in touch with your contact partner at the device manufacturer.
For more information, refer to the "List of integrated devices". You will find this on the "SIMATIC
PDM Device Library 1#2014" DVD in the "\_manuals" directory.
Follow-up installations and additional information on SIMATIC PDM are available on the
Internet at "Auto-Hotspot".
See also
www.siemens.com/simatic-pdm (www.siemens.de/simatic-pdm)
2.4 Basis for using intelligent field devices
Integration of field devices from different manufacturers into control systems
Device descriptions had to be standardized In order to enable intelligent field devices from
different manufacturers to be integrated into different control systems. This standard (IEC
61804-2) was developed in collaboration with the following organizations:
● PROFIBUS User Organization (PNO)
● Hart Communication Foundation (HCF)
● Fieldbus FOUNDATION (FF)
● OPC Foundation
Device descriptions are based on EDDL (Electronic Device Description Language - standard
IEC 61804-3).
Finding the device description
You can obtain device descriptions in the following ways:
● From the device manufacturer together with the device
● On the Internet
● In the device catalogs of applications that can evaluate data contained in device descriptions
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Note
Device descriptions and EDD
Below, only the term "device description" will be used to refer to "EDD" (Electronic Device
Description) and "DD" (Device Description).
However, the terms EDD and DD appear in the user interface.
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