Chapter 4 Advant Controller 160 Configurations-PM664 3BSE014664R1

　　Configuration Overview

　　ABB’s Advant Controller 160 is a high performance modular controller for logic and regulatory control with redundancy. Advant Controller 160 and its S600 local I/O, S800 distributed I/O, or PROFIBUS-DP I/O can be used stand-alone or it can communicate with other controllers. Communication with Advant Controller 400 Series is possible via Advant Fieldbus 100 and RCOM. Communication with external PLCs is possible via MODBUS and Siemens 3964R protocol.

　　The controller is specifically designed for high speed PLC-type applications, but it also brings considerable problem-solving power to all analog signal handling and arithmetic applications.

　　Advant Controller 160 covers a wide range of applications. As programming language AMPL is used. The function element library contains a complete set of functions. Application programs can be shared between Advant Controller 55, Advant Controller 70, Advant Controller 110, Advant Controller 160, and Advant Controller 400 Series, provided that a common set of AMPL elements is used.

　　Program entry, testing, documentation and fault tracing are supported by the Advant Station 100 Series Engineering Stations. These stations feature graphical Windows based function-chart programming and a user interface with multiple windows, pull down menus and “point-andclick” selection. Advant Controller 160 communicates with the engineering station through its standard serial interface or via Advant Fieldbus 100.

　　Advant Controller 160 is fully modular, with modules mounted in 19" subracks. The subracks are designed for mounting on the rear wall in a cabinet.

　　A minimal Advant Controller 160 configuration consists of one or two subracks containing the two redundant Processor Modules and up to 18 I/O and communication modules.

　　In order to extend the number of I/O modules, up to 7 I/O stations may be connected to the Basic Station, each consisting of up to two subracks.

　　To increase the numbers of I/Os, it is also possible to connect decentralized S800 I/O (Advant Fieldbus 100 via CI627/CI631) and decentralized PROFIBUS-DP I/O (PROFIBUS-DP via PM644), to the Advant Controller 160.

　　For connection of a local operator station (3rd party product), the Processor Module of Advant Controller 160 is equipped with a MODBUS I serial interface.

　　SattGraph 5000 or AdvaSoft 2.0 for Windows NT Operator Stations using Advant OPC Server are easily connected via Advant Fieldbus 100.

　　Using dual redundant Processor Modules, dual redundant communication interface modules to Advant Fieldbus 100 and to I/O extension bus, dual redundant power supply modules and mains supplies an increased availability of the Advant Controller 160 can be achieved.

　　Advant Controller 160 is fully modular with use of subracks for all modules. The subracks can be installed in cabinets or can be mounted directly on the wall. All process connections can be made to screw terminals on connections units.

　　Preconditions and Restrictions

　　To support Advant Controller 160 version 2.1, Control Builder A version 1.0 or higher including Function Chart Builder 6.0 has to be used.

　　Product Components

　　The functional extent of Advant Controller 160 is determined by enabling or adding optional software modules and by adding hardware units to the Basic Unit.

　　All standard software options are built-in, some of them already enabled, others need to be enabled to achieve the desired functional configuration.

　　Custom made software modules (add-on options, see Section 4.3.1.7 System Software Extensions (Add-on Options)) can to be loaded to the Processor Module to add even more functionality.

　　Optional hardware units are additional Processor Modules, local or remote I/O, Communication Interface modules, etc.

　　Software Components

　　The system software for Advant Controller 160 is stored in one single program module. This program module consists of a BASE software providing the basic functionality plus several built-in options. These options can be combined in any way that is needed to solve the application task. A description of the basic functionality and all options is given below.

　　System Software Extensions (Add-on Options)

　　Although the built-in options often bring great enhancement to the functionality, the need for customer-specific PC elements may arise to match business unit specific applications.

　　An extension—in this context—is a PC element or a group of PC elements embraced from a library that can be loaded to the controller to “extend” its capabilities. If description files for Control Builder A are added, we rather speak of customer specific add-on options.

　　In contrast to standard options, these add-on options are usually distributed on a diskette containing:

　　• the option loader,

　　• the binary image to be loaded to the controller,

　　• a batch file for loading the image file

　　• several description files for Control Builder A plus documentation

　　The customer is able to apply the option to Advant Controller and Control Builder A himself. The loader “adds” the code to the Advant Controller’s system software during run-time.

　　The advantage is, that there is no need to modify the system software itself. Thereby, the only limitation for the number of add-on options is the available system FPROM memory of the processor module, respectively its RAM size.

　　The description files for Control Builder A are read and compiled by the Setup Add-ons Utility on the PC (for instance Advant Station 100 Series Engineering Station). An Add-on option may also be distributed together with complete PC program applications that make use of PC elements that are included in the option.

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