SR EN 61158-4-8:2008

Industrial communication networks - Fieldbus specifications -- Part 4-8: Data-link layer protocol specification - Type 8 elements

It provides basic time-critical messaging communications between devices in an automation environment. This protocol provides a highly-optimized means of interchanging fixed-length input/output data and variable-length segmented messages between a single master device and a set of slave devices interconnected in a loop (ring) topology. The exchange of input/output data is totally synchronous by configuration, and is unaffected by the messaging traffic. It includes the following significant changes with respect to the previous edition deletion of the former Type 6 fieldbus, and the placeholder for a Type 5 fieldbus data-link layer, for lack of market relevance; addition of new types of fieldbuses; division of this part into multiple parts numbered.

98.45

Status : Valid
Approval date : 9/30/2008
Publish date : 10/2/2008
Number of pages : 139
ICS : 25.040.40 Industrial process measurement and control,35.100.20 Data link layer
Technical Committee : 23 - Industrial -process measurement and control

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