Rockwell Automation 1788-FFCT NI-FBUS Configurator User Manual - Manual (Page 21)

1 Publication 1788-UM052B-EN-P - April 2002
Chapter
3
NI-FBUS Configurator Overview
This chapter introduces the NI-FBUS Configurator, lists some of its
main features, and describes the main windows of the application.
Introduction to
the NI-FBUS Configurator You can use the NI-FBUS Configurator to configure a fieldbus network
and keep track of your configuration changes. The NI-FBUS
Configurator is an easy-to-use graphical environment for creating
linkages, loops, and a schedule based on the fieldbus concepts
described in Chapter, Fieldbus Overview.
Now that you are familiar with the basics of fieldbus communication,
you are ready to use the NI-FBUS Configurator. To use the NI-FBUS
Configurator immediately, continue to Chapter, Using the NI-FBUS
Configurator.
NI-FBUS Configurator
Features You can use the NI-FBUS Configurator to configure a fieldbus network
as follows:
• Set block and device tags
• Set device addresses
• Create and edit function block control strategies
(function block applications)
• Configure vendor-defined function and transducer blocks
• Create and edit schedules
• Read and write to function block control strategies
(function block applications)
• Invoke Device Description (DD) methods
• Display DD menus
• Download a configuration
• Verify a configuration and compare it to a saved configuration
• Monitor a downloaded configuration
• Replace devices
• Log project download changes
• Save and print a configuration