Quick Adaptation to Customer-Specific Hardware Platforms

• Complete, software-based solution
• Especially addressing deployment in typical process automation field devices
• Implementation optimized to run on 16 and 32 Bit low-power microcontrollers as typically used in explosive environments
• Facilitated usage in a wide range of microcontroller, memory, and operating system environments, as often found in field devices
• Adaptable to device-specific requirements
• Enabling usage on customer-specific target platforms

Full Set of Functionality

• Implementation according to the PROFIBUS specification
• Containing Function Blocks defined by the PROFIBUS PA profile in the PROFIBUS specification
• Modular design allowing individual selection of functionality supported by individual field device

Support of General Fieldbus ASICs

• Implementation supporting not only PROFIBUS ASIC SPC4-2, but also other fieldbus ASICs like Aniotek’s UFC100-L1
• Approach easing parallel implementation of PROFIBUS PA and Foundation fieldbus H1 field device using identical hardware platform
• Joint development of Softing’s PROFIBUS PA and Foundation fieldbus H1 field device protocol software reducing necessary effort for implementing second field device protocol