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TY - JOUR
T1 - Fieldbus
T2 - an emerging communications standard
AU - Armitage, Bruce
AU - Dunlop, George
AU - Hutchison, David
AU - Yu, Shousan
PY - 1988/12/1
Y1 - 1988/12/1
N2 - The emerging IEC 'Fieldbus' standard is intended to define a serial communications network for interfacing to low-level devices in factories or process plants, including sensors, actuators, single-variable controllers and small (often embedded) computers. Fieldbus has lower bit rates than those of, say, MAP or miniMAP networks but its features address a range of requirements which are important at the lowest level of automated control, including realtime response, low cost, intrinsic safety and a powered bus. The paper considers some of the technical challenges which a local area network used within an industrial environment will have to meet and, in particular, considers the developing IEC Fieldbus standard and its relationship to MAP, miniMAP and other proprietary field buses.
AB - The emerging IEC 'Fieldbus' standard is intended to define a serial communications network for interfacing to low-level devices in factories or process plants, including sensors, actuators, single-variable controllers and small (often embedded) computers. Fieldbus has lower bit rates than those of, say, MAP or miniMAP networks but its features address a range of requirements which are important at the lowest level of automated control, including realtime response, low cost, intrinsic safety and a powered bus. The paper considers some of the technical challenges which a local area network used within an industrial environment will have to meet and, in particular, considers the developing IEC Fieldbus standard and its relationship to MAP, miniMAP and other proprietary field buses.
KW - bus standards
KW - Fieldbus MAP
KW - microsystems
U2 - 10.1016/0141-9331(88)90004-X
DO - 10.1016/0141-9331(88)90004-X
M3 - Journal article
AN - SCOPUS:0024143587
VL - 12
SP - 555
EP - 562
JO - Microprocessors and Microsystems
JF - Microprocessors and Microsystems
SN - 0141-9331
IS - 10
ER -