Softing Linking Device –

Manual for Configuration, Installation and Maintenance

Glossary

8 Glossary

Explains specialist terms of the organisation, configuration, device types and the handling of FF-CONF.

8.1 General remarks of the user manual

Term

Definitions

Comment,

 

 

other term

 

 

 

softing Linking Device

Gateway between PC/LAN,

HSE, Linking

 

Modbus/LAN, Modbus serial and H1

Device

 

Devices

 

 

 

 

Linking Device

Gateway between PC/LAN,

(softing) Linking

 

Modbus/LAN, Modbus serial and H1

Device, HSE

 

Devices

 

 

 

 

HSE

Gateway and communication controller

(softing) Linking

 

between PC/LAN, Modbus/LAN,

Device

 

Modbus serial and over the H1 Links

 

 

with the H1 Devices

 

 

 

 

H1 Device

Terminal to record and communicate

 

 

measurements complying with the

 

 

fieldbus standards

 

 

 

 

H1 Link

Connected to the linking device.

sometimes also

 

Supplies up to 16 H1 devices with

called “segment“

 

power and data.

 

 

 

 

Network Configuration

The part of FF-CONF that allows you to

 

 

configure your plant offline.

 

 

 

 

Function Block

The part of FF-CONF where you build

 

application

your communication network between

 

 

the different blocks of your H1 Devices.

 

 

 

 

Network Livelist

Image of the existing installation: PC,

 

 

Network Card, Linking Devices, H1

 

 

Links, H1 Devices and Host devices

 

 

 

 

Modbus

A unit to communicate with the Linking

 

 

Device and to control the activities of

 

 

the H1 Devices. It is always a special

 

 

system and it has to prove whether it

 

 

works in combination with the Linking

 

 

Device.

 

 

The Modbus may exist as an Ethernet

 

 

version, then it is participant in the LAN.

 

 

Application In most cases works with

 

 

the serial interface RS485 and has to

 

 

be connected with the Linking Device

 

 

over an interface converter RS232 –

 

 

RS485.

 

 

 

 

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