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DeltaV Serial card licensing

Hi,

Can anyone inform me about serial card licensing?

How its license work.

One address is consider as one DST or License is port wise?

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obi1987

• 5 Jul 2015 8:37 AM
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• MC_Chow

  

  • 6 Jul 2015 3:13 PM

  What Release version of DeltaV are you working with?

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• obi1987

  

  • 7 Jul 2015 11:00 AM

  In reply to MC_Chow:

  V12.3

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• MC_Chow

  

  • 7 Jul 2015 5:49 PM

  In reply to obi1987:

  There is now no specific serial card license for the DeltaV Serial Card in v12.3. The serial card handles data in datasets. Each card has two serial ports and each port supports up to 16 datasets (each card supports total of 2 X 16 datasets); each dataset can have up to 100 contiguous registers. Data in the registers can be read into FBs that are in CMs.
  
  In v12.3, the Serial Card licensing basis is that each Dataset will consume 1 DST, at a min. What kind of DST depends on the data type and data "direction" e.g. direction would be an Input if the register is being read in as a DeltaV Boolean with status, hence this would be a DI DST or a 32 bit integer with status is being read an Output, this would consume 1 AO DST. So if you have a dataset that has only DI type data in its registers (up to 100 regsiters), this will consume only 1 DI DST. However if there are other data types that are being read/written, then there would other DST types consumed e.g. if you have DI, DO and AI data types in the dataset, it would consume 1 DI, 1 DO and 1 AI.
  
  Hope this helps. If you have need further assistance, I would sugegst you contact local Emerson sales/rep office (apologies if you are affliated with Emerson as your login name does not indicate that).

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• paul.acquavella

  

  • 7 Jul 2015 6:48 PM

  In reply to MC_Chow:

  I think Mr. Chow posted 'dataset' when he meant 'device'. Each dataset only has one data type, although a device may have up to 16 datasets.
  
  Serial card -> Port (1 or 2) -> Device (1 through 16) -> Datasets (up to 16 total per port - i.e., if 16 devices, only one dataset per device)
  
  From BOL v12.3:
  Serial Card I/O license demand guidelines
  
  References from DeltaV control modules to serial I/O datasets require an I/O license. References to multiple registers in the same dataset requires only one license. Multiple modules can reference the same dataset without requiring additional licenses.
  
  The table shows the I/O license type required for each dataset direction and type.
  
  Table: Controller and Serial card I/O register license demand requirements
  Dataset data direction DeltaV data type I/O license type used
  Input 8/16/32 bit int/uint, Float, String w/status AI
  Output 8/16/32 bit int/uint, Float, String w/status AO
  Input Boolean/Discrete with status DI
  Output Boolean/Discrete with status DO

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