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Article: OPC to launch unified architecture.(Plant electronics)(OLE for Process Control)(electronic device description language)(OPC Unified Architecture Developer Conference)
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- Plant Engineering
- Article date:
- March 1, 2005
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The OPC Foundation (OPCF) has joined the international cooperative team of the three leading fieldbus organizations, the Fieldbus Foundation (FF), HART Communication Foundation (HCF), and PROFIBUS Nutzerorganisation e.V. (PNO), to extend the reach of electronic device descriptions (EDDs) into the OPC unified architecture.
In 2003, FF, HCF, and PNO formed a cooperative joint working group to extend the capabilities of electronic device description language (EDDL). An underlying technology in millions of installed field instruments, EDDL is a text-based language for describing the digital communication characteristics of intelligent control devices. Device ...