Fst Storage And Restart; Deleting An Fst; Printing And Exporting An Fst; Editing An Fst - Emerson Micro Motion 3711 Configuration And Use Manual

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11.7.3

FST storage and restart

The Flags window is used to manage FST storage on the Model 3711 (see Figure 14-1).
To save an FST to the Model 3711's flash memory, click
If an FST is running when a warm start or a restart after power outage occurs, the FST
automatically restarts at Step 0.
If you click
SRAM if SRAM is valid.
If you click
from FST SRAM. They may or may not exist in flash memory.
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If they exist in flash memory, you can reload them by performing a cold start. They will
not be started automatically; you must start them as described in Section 11.7.2.
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If they do not exist in flash memory, you must download them to the Model 3711 as
described in Section 11.7.1, then start them.
Note: See Section 14.3 for a discussion of Model 3711 memory structure and management.
If an FST is saved to memory and it is running when a firmware upgrade occurs, it will be stopped.
You must restart it manually.
11.7.4

Deleting an FST

The
FST > Clear
clear an FST. If it is necessary to delete an FST:
1. In the same space as the FST to be deleted (FST 1 or FST 2), build an FST containing only an
END command.
2. Compile and download the FST.
3. Save the device configuration to flash memory (see Section 14.2).
11.7.5

Printing and exporting an FST

To print an FST or export it to a file:
1. Read the FST into the FST Editor.
2. Click the
3. To print, click the
a. Click the desired format (PDF, Excel, RTF, TXT, or HTML).
b. Specify a name and location for the exported file.
11.7.6

Editing an FST

To edit an FST, read it into the FST Editor, then make changes using the same methods that were used
to develop it.
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, all FST code and registers will be cleared, but will be restored from
Cold Start
Start & Clear FSTs
option on the FST Editor menu is not operational. There is no automatic way to
button on the FST toolbar, or click
Print
button. To export:
Print
or
Cold Start & Clear ALL
FST > Print Preview
Micro Motion
.
Save Configuration
, all FSTs are permanently deleted
.
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