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A Sierra Monitor Company

APPLICABILITY & EFFECTIVITY 

Effective for all systems manufactured after May 1, 2001 

 

Driver Manual  

(Supplement to the FieldServer Instruction Manual) 

 

FS-8700-87 SDD16 

 

Driver Version: 

1.03 

Document Revision:   6 
 

Summary of Contents for FS-8700-87

Page 1: ...itor Company APPLICABILITY EFFECTIVITY Effective for all systems manufactured after May 1 2001 Driver Manual Supplement to the FieldServer Instruction Manual FS 8700 87 SDD16 Driver Version 1 03 Document Revision 6 ...

Page 2: ...ESCRIPTION 3 2 DRIVER SCOPE OF SUPPLY 4 2 1 Supplied by FieldServer Technologies for this driver 4 3 HARDWARE CONNECTIONS 5 4 CONFIGURING THE FIELDSERVER AS A SDD16 CLIENT 6 4 1 Data Arrays 6 4 2 Client Side Connection Descriptors 7 4 3 Client Side Node Descriptors 7 4 4 Client Side Map Descriptors 8 4 4 1 FieldServer Related Map Descriptor Parameters 8 4 4 2 Driver Related Map Descriptor Paramete...

Page 3: ...emulate a Client The SDD16 driver is used to communicate with a digital I O module model 485SDD16 The current driver only supports reading the status of all sixteen digital input lines The SDD16 driver in conjunction with the 485SDD16 module allows the FieldServer to sense external On Off conditions and to control a variety of devices The SDD16 driver makes use of the data complement mode feature ...

Page 4: ...ilpitas California 95035 USA Web www fieldserver com Tel 408 262 2299 Fax 408 262 9042 Toll_Free 888 509 1970 email support fieldserver com 2 Driver Scope of Supply 2 1 Supplied by FieldServer Technologies for this driver FieldServer Technologies PART Description FS 8700 87 Driver Manual ...

Page 5: ... 408 262 2299 Fax 408 262 9042 Toll_Free 888 509 1970 email support fieldserver com 3 Hardware Connections The FieldServer is connected to the RS 485 SDD16 module as shown below Configure the RS 485 SDD16 module according to manufacturer s instructions Note that the module auto detects valid baud rates as defined in the client side connections ...

Page 6: ... In order to enable the FieldServer for SDD16 communications the driver independent FieldServer buffers need to be declared in the Data Arrays section the destination device addresses need to be declared in the Client Side Nodes section and the data required from the servers needs to be mapped in the Client Side Map Descriptors section Details on how to do this can be found below Note that in the ...

Page 7: ...D16 Handshaking Specify hardware handshaking None Line_Drive_On Time to wait before driving line 0 001s Line_Drive_Off Time to wait before releasing line 0s Poll _Delay Time between internal polls 0 32000 seconds 1 second Example Client Side Connections Connections Port Baud Parity Protocol Handshaking Poll_Delay Line_Drive_On Line_Drive_Off R1 9600 None SDD16 None 0 100s 0 001s 0s 4 3 Client Side...

Page 8: ...rray where data is to be stored in the FieldServer One of the Data Array names from Data Array section above Data_Array_Location Starting location in Data Array 0 to maximum specified in Data Array section above Function Function of Client Map Descriptor RDBC 4 4 2 Driver Related Map Descriptor Parameters Column Title Function Legal Values Node_Name Name of Node to fetch data from One of the node ...

Page 9: ...ray_Name Data_Array_Offset Function Node_name Address Length Digital_inputs 1s Digitals_0 0 rdbc Module_0 0 16 Name of this Map Descriptor The rate at which data will be updated for this Map Descriptor Name of the Data Array where retrieved data will be stored Offset into Data Array where retrieved data will be stored The Map Descriptor s function is to read data continuously The RS485SDD16 module...

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