Honeywell SLG 700 Option Manual page 7

Terms and Acronyms
Term
Alarm
AI - Analog Input
(function block)
Application
Block
Configuration (of a
system or device)
Device
Device Description
(DD)
Device Description
Language (DDL)
Device Tag
DTM
EEPROM
EMI
Event
Field Device
FOUNDATION™
Fieldbus
FDM
FDT
FISCO
FTA
Function Block
Function Block
Application Process
Hz
Rev.5
The detection of a block leaving a particular state and when it returns back to
that state.
One of the standard function blocks define by the Foundation Fieldbus
A software program that interacts with blocks, events and objects. One
application may interface with other applications or contain more than one
application.
A logical software unit that makes up one named copy of a block and the
associated parameters its block type specifies. It can be a resource block,
transducer block or a function block.
A step in system design: selecting functional units, assigning their locations and
identifiers, and defining their interconnections.
A physical entity capable of performing one or more specific functions.
Examples include transmitters, actuators, controllers, operator interfaces.
Description of FBAPs within a device. Files that describe the software objects in
a device, such as function blocks and parameters. The DD binary are created
by passing DD source files through a standard tool called a tokenizer.
A standardized programming language (similar to C) used to write device
description source files.
The Physical Device Tag of the device as specified in the Foundation Fieldbus
specifications.
Device Type Manager
Electrically Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory
Electromagnetic Interference
An instantaneous occurrence that is significant to scheduling block execution
and to the operational (event) view of the application.
A fieldbus-compatible device that contains and executes function blocks.
Communications protocol for a digital, serial, two-way system which
interconnects industrial field equipment such as sensors, actuators and
controllers.
Field Device Manager
Field Device Tool
Foundation Fieldbus Intrinsically Safe Concept
Field Termination Assembly
An executable software object that performs a specific task, such as
measurement or control, with inputs and outputs that connect to other function
blocks in a standard way.
The part of the device software that executes the blocks (function, transducer,
or resource blocks).
Hertz
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