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AT-FBUS for Windows NT
Introduction
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Chapter
This chapter lists what you need to get started and includes a brief
description of the AT-FBUS board and the NI-FBUS software.
What You Need to Get Started
To install your NI-FBUS software, you need the following items:
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AT-FBUS plug-in board
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Cable compliant with the Fieldbus Standard for Use in Industrial
Control Systems, Part 2, ISA-S50.02.1992
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Installation disks
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Windows NT version 3.51 or 4.0 installed on your computer
Hardware Description
The AT-FBUS is a plug-in board that handles communication between
network-configurable devices that comply with the Fieldbus Foundation
H1 specification and a PC AT-compatible computer that has 16-bit ISA
slots. The AT-FBUS uses the Intel 386EX embedded processor, shared
memory, and an interrupt to communicate with its driver. The AT-FBUS
supports the fieldbus transfer rate of 31.25 kb/s.
The single-port AT fieldbus interface is called the AT-FBUS and the
dual-port AT fieldbus interface is called the AT-FBUS/2. In this manual,
the term AT-FBUS refers to both the single-port AT-FBUS board and the
dual-port AT-FBUS/2 board, unless otherwise indicated.
