Honeywell Experion PKS User Manual page 267

14 GLOSSARY OF TERMS AND ACRONYMS
Generic Station Description
A readable ASCII text file that contains both general and device-specific specifications for communication
(Communication Feature List) and network configuration.
HCIR
Hot Configuration in RUN
Profibus Network Configuration Tool
This tool is used to configure the field network and the devices for various networks. It runs vendor specific
DTM or generic DTM for devices having GSD or EDDL configuration files.
IOTA
Input Output Termination Assembly
I/O
Input/Output
I/O Modules
The I/O modules provide the terminals and processing power to accept input signals from transmitters,
thermocouples, and so on and send output signals to valves, motors, and so on. A variety of I/O modules are
available for analog inputs/outputs and digital inputs/outputs.
Little-endian
The least significant byte (LSB) value is the first byte and the other bytes follow in increasing order of
significance.
LSB
Least significant byte
MSB
Most significant byte
ODM
Online Data Manager
Online Data Manager
A high-level interface to a hardware driver. This is used by the field network configuration tool ( Profibus
Network Configuration Tool).
PB
Protocol Block
PBHCHANNEL
PROFIBUS HART I/O channel
PBHIOMB
PROFIBUS HART Input/Output Module Function Block
PDA
Process Data Access
PDC
Process Data Collection
PGM
PROFIBUS Gateway Module
PIOMB
PROFIBUS I/O Module Block
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