IEEE
STARTS STANDARD FOR SMART TRANSDUCER INTERFACE FOR SENSORS AND
ACTUATORS
Contact:
Karen
McCabe, IEEE Marketing Manager
+1 732 562 3824, k.mccabe@ieee.org
PISCATAWAY,
N.J., USA, 19 April 2004 The IEEE has started work on a smart
transducer interface standard for sensors and actuators that addresses
high-speed CANopen-based networks.
The new project,
IEEE P1451.6™, "Standard for A Smart Transducer Interface
for Sensors and Actuators: A High-speed CANopen-based Transducer
Network Interface for Intrinsically Safe and Non-intrinsically
Safe Applications," will establish a CANopen-based network
for multi-channel transducer modules and will define a safe CAN
physical layer. It will define the mapping of IEEE 1451™
transducer electronic data sheets (TEDS) to CANopen dictionary
entries, as well as communication messages, process data, configuration
parameter and diagnosis information.
There are many implementations of CANopen network interfaces based
on the CiA DS 404 device profile. In order to use the IEEE 1451
TEDS concept and attain data compatibility from a single sensor
to a high-performance closed-loop controller, TEDS parameters
must be harmonized. The proposed standard will allow development
of lean gateways and cascaded transducer
networks that combines specifications in of IEEE 1451 and CANopen.
This project
is sponsored by the IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society.
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