Prosoft A-FFL/B FOUNDATION™ Fieldbus H1 Master for EtherNet/IP™ and Modbus® TCP

The FF Link module simplifies the implementation of FOUNDATION™

Fieldbus H1 by combining an EtherNet/IP™ and Modbus® TCP Linking

device with an internal isolated power conditioner and bus terminator.

The FF Link supports module redundancy when in EtherNet/IP target

mode, allowing two FF Link masters to be connected to the same H1

segment in a one-active-one-standby strategy.

Configuration is achieved using Aparian's free-downloadable Slate

configuration environment. Slate generates H1 device specific UDTs and

mapping code which can be imported into Studio 5000. allowing even

complex systems to be configured in minutes.

Features

 Operates as a FOUNDATION™ Fieldbus H1 Master.

 Supports up to 32 FOUNDATION™ Fieldbus H1 field devices.

 Module has various configurable primary interfaces:

o EtherNet/IP Target

o Modbus TCP Server

o Modbus TCP Client

o EtherNet/IP Originator (Class 1- connections 10 and Explicit Messaging with up to 10 EtherNet/IP devices).

 Provides a built-in Isolated Power Conditioner that can supply up to 420mA.

 Allows the use of external Power Conditioners for Intrinsically Safe (IS) applications.

 Provides a built-in software enabled Fieldbus terminator.

 Dual Ethernet ports which support Device-Level-Ring (DLR).

 Built-in H1 and Modbus packet capture.

 Supports detailed H1 live list, H1 Alert (Alarm) extraction, and H1 Master Redundancy

 Device Specific UDT, tag and logic generation for import into a Studio5000 project.

 Network Time Protocol (NTP) supported for external time synchronization.

 Device Type Manager (DTM) supported.

 Online change configuration supported.

 Optional Advanced H1 scheduling.