FLEXIBLY CONFIGURABLE, DATA TRANSMISSION OBJECT
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Abstract
A field device for connection to a fieldbus, wherein the field device is designed to exchange via the fieldbus a data transmission object with a host computer or with an additional field device, wherein the data transmission object has a plurality of freely loadable, transmission berths, and wherein the field device includes a data mapping structure, which establishes an association between variables to be transmitted and transmission berths of the data transmission object.
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28 Claims
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15. A field device for connection to a fieldbus, designed to exchange, via the fieldbus, a data transmission object with a host computer or with an additional field device, wherein:
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said data transmission object has a plurality of freely loadable, transmission berths; and the field device includes a data mapping structure, which establishes an association between variables to be transmitted and transmission berths of said data transmission object. - View Dependent Claims (16)
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17. A fieldbus system comprising:
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a fieldbus; a field device, which is connected to said fieldbus; and a host computer, in which at least one of a device management unit or a control system for said field device is implemented and applies a device description file of said field device;
wherein;in said device description file, a data transmission object for data exchange between said field device and said host computer or an additional field device is defined, which includes a plurality of freely loadable, transmission berths; and said field device includes a data mapping structure, which effects an association of variables to be transmitted with transmission berths of said data transmission object. - View Dependent Claims (18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27)
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28. A method for transmitting data between a field device and a host computer or an additional field device, comprising the steps of:
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setting up a data transmission object corresponding to a device description file, wherein the data transmission object includes a plurality of freely loadable, transmission berths; assigning of variables to be transmitted to transmission berths corresponding to a data mapping structure, which is provided by way of the field device; and transmitting the variables to be transmitted in the data transmission object between the field device and the host computer or the additional field device.
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