YOKOGAWA CS3000 R3 FFCS COMPACT CONTROL STATION
Description
Yokogawa Electrie has been using Pair & Spare method as a reliability-enhancing technology for its line of distributed control system (DCS) Since the release of the CENTUM CS in1993, As a result, the system has achieved an availability factor ofseven 9's (99.99999%) for the record of operation to date, Under the basic concept “continually adopt new funetions with assured unction continuity", the CENTUM CS3000 R3 is being constantly improved through ongoing development and by Introducing the latest
technologies, Also strietly adhering to this basic stance for CENTUM CS R3 Revision 3.04, we have developed the FFCS compact field control station which provides both the advanced control functions and high reliability levels required for DCSs, for use with small- to medium-scale systems This article introduces the FFCS.
ESB Bus Coupler Module (EC401)
We have also developed the ESB bus coupler module(EC401)designed to conneet the direet-coupling node to the CPU node, the module has one port for the ESB bus to
communicate with the ESB bus interface module (SB40l). By installing two units of the module, it is possible to support for the dual redundancy ofthe ESB bus.
CONCLUSION
Yokogawa Electrie's DCSs have evolved through the positive adoption of new technologies in line with market reguirements (peformance, funetionality, and capacity increase). We have inereased the capacity and functionality ofFCSs control units in harmony with improvements in semiconductor integration technology and enhancements in microprocessor performance.Sinee the amount of data for equalization between the dual.redundant processors has increased significantly, the
conventional transfer capacity will no longer suffice.
We have retrofitted the backplane bus which has not been changed since the release of the CENlUM CS. In addition, we have developed the SEN bus (high speed serial bus) for data equalization between the dual-redundant processor modules of the FFCS, The technical progress ofthe SEN bus holds promise for the bus to become even
faster in future. Consequently, it wil become possible to further enhance the functionality and performance ofFCSs.
SEN BuS
We have also developed the SEN bus for program copying and data equalization between the processor modules, Table lshows the specifications ofthe SEN bus in brief.
Traditionally, data exchange between the processor modules has been performed using a parallel transmission method. In the case of the SEN bus hoever, the method has been replaced with the point-to-point high-speed serial transmission method to reduce the mounting area and the number of signal lines to one. tenth those of the
conventional bus, Since the LVDS (EIA/TIA. 644 standard) method featuring small signal amplitudes has been adopted for the bus signal levels, radiation noise has been
reduced and power consumption has also been dramatically reduced.From the point of view of high reliability, we added an error-detecting code and made it possible to
connect/disconnect the module with the line electrified. The SEN bus is provided with error-detecting funetions, such as constantly performing self.diagnoses using idle fame even in the absence of bus access requests, From a software point of view, the SEN bus inherits exactly the same interface as that ofthe existing backplane bus
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