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Chapter 1 Introduction
HSE Linking Device and NI-FBUS Software 1-4 ni.com
Optional Fieldbus Network Tools
Your kit includes either the NI-FBUS Communications Manager software,
NI-FBUS Configurator software, or both. In addition, you can order the
LabVIEW DSC, and/or Lookout from National Instruments. If you have
not already done so, you also can order the NI-FBUS Configurator.
LabVIEW DSC helps you perform data acquisition and analysis, create a
human-machine interface (HMI), or develop an advanced supervisory
control application in a graphical development environment.
LabVIEW DSC includes real-time process monitoring, historical trending,
alarm and event reporting, online configuration, and PLC connectivity.
Lookout helps you create graphical representations on a computer screen
of real-world devices such as switches, dial gauges, chart recorders,
pushbuttons, knobs, sliders, and meters. After linking these images to your
field instruments, you can configure Lookout to generate alarms, log data
to disk, animate custom graphics, print reports, automatically adjust
setpoints, historically trend information, warn operators of malfunctions,
and so on.
NI-FBUS Dialog
System
NI-FBUS Dialog Used to view the
devices on the bus
and manually read
and write parameter
values. Not for
configuration.
nifbdlg.exe
Server Explorer Server Explorer Lets you configure
the attributes of
the communication
resource, device, and
items of your network,
and the groups and
items of your OPC
server.
serverexplorer.exe
Table 1-1. National Instruments Fieldbus Software (Continued)
Software Application Short Name Description File Name