1-6 Field Control Genius® Bus Interface Unit User’s Manual October 1999 GFK-0825F
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Configuration for Field Control
Configuration is an important part of the process of setting up a Field Control station. It establishes
the following features:
For the Bus Interface Unit:
Genius serial bus address
Baud rate for Genius bus communications
Fault reporting to th e host
Use of the Bus Interface Unit as a bus switching device in a dual (redundant) bus system
Redundancy mode for CPU redundancy
Configuration protection
For I/O Modules:
I/O addressing
Whether faults will be r ep orted to the host
Hold Last State for inputs or outputs
Output defaults
Range selection for analog modules
Scaling for analog modules
Alarm limits for analog modules
For a Micro Field Processor:
Reference a ddresses
Data Lengths
A Bus Interface Unit and I/O modules can be fully configured using a Hand-held Monitor.
Optionally, a previously-configured Bus Interface Unit can be reconfigured using datagrams.

For more information about configuration, please refer to:

Chapter 5 of this manual (HHM Configuration). A Genius Hand-held Monitor, version 4.6
(IC660HHM501J ) or later, can be used to configure a Bus Interface Unit. HHM configuration
instructions are given in chapter 5.
In addition, chapter 8 of this manual (Datagrams) explains how the configuration of a Bus
Interface Unit can be completed or changed by sending it Write Configuration datagrams.
The Series 90 Micro Field Processor User's Manual (GFK-1171), which describes the Micro
Field Processor (IC670MFP100), and provides installation procedures, operation information, and
diagnostics information.
If the system host is a Series 90™70 PLC, the Genius Bus Interface Unit must be included in the
system configurati on as a device on the bus. Please see th e programming software d ocum entation
for instructions.