Glossary

Term

Description

AMS

Alarm Manager System

AO

Application Object

AW/WSTA/WSVR

Application Workstation/Workstation/Workstation Server

CIO

Foxboro Control and I/O Configurator

Compatibility Matrix

An online table showing the compatibility between different versions of Foxboro, Wonderware, Triconex, Flexera, and Aveva Simulation products.

Control HMI

An InTouch display application providing the Human Machine Interface - an alternative to FoxView and FoxDraw software.

Control Software

Shortened term for Foxboro Evo Control Software

CCS

Control Core Services (formerly I/A Series)

CP

Control Processor (Foxboro). The Control Processor performs any mix of integrated first-level automation functions such as continuous, sequential, or discreet logic functions.

CP Host

The AW (WSTA70 / WSVR70) configured through System Definition to host the CPs SCP is otherwise called a CP Host.

DCS

Distributed Control System

FECN

Foxboro Evo Control Network (formerly known as MESH network). The network between every machine with Foxboro Evo software installed and the control processors.

GUI

Graphical User Interface

HF

Hotfix

I/A Series

Intelligent Automation Series (now known as Control Core Services)

ICC

Integrated Controls Configurator – a controls configurator installed with FoxView/FoxDraw

IDE

ArchestrA Integrated Development Environment

MESH

The network between every I/A Series/Control Core Services software installed machine and the control processors. Now called the Foxboro Evo Control Network (FECN).

NIC

Network Interface Card

OM

Object Manager (Foxboro) - a proprietary Foxboro OS extension that supports data access to I/A Series / Control Core Services objects

OS

Operating System (Microsoft Windows)

OTS

Operator Training Simulator

PAS

Process Automation System

Peer-to-Peer Connection

The control block mechanism that uses OM lists to refresh its block inputs with data from a remote station. That data connects CIO, OM, or AO objects. For most control strategies, peer-to-peer connections exist between CIO objects. The block that requests data is referred to as the "sink" of the block connections, and the block that contains the requested data is referred to as the "source" of the block connection. A block connection is normally local to another block that exists in the same CP. However, the full path name defined for a block parameter can connect to a CIO object that is in another CP. This remote type of connection is referred to as a peer-to-peer block connection.

RAM

Random Access Memory

SCP

Simulation Control Processor. It simulates FCP270, ZCP270, CP280, and FDC280 algorithms and communication protocols.

Simulation Executive (SimExec)

The SimExec controls time, synchronizes engines, and sends data between engines in a simulator

Skewed Simulation Time

See Simulation Time, Skewed

Simulation Time, Elapsed

This is the amount of time the simulation has run since the simulation was started or since a snapshot was restored. The DYNSIM GUI displays the elapsed simulation time and the DYNSIM Snapshot Summary table stores the elapsed simulation time with each IC.

Running faster than real time (simulation speed > 100%) will result in the elapsed simulation time being greater than elapsed wall clock time.

Running slower than real time (simulation speed < 100%) will result in the elapsed simulation time being less than elapsed wall clock time.

Simulation Time, Skewed

The skewed simulation time differs from computer system time when the simulation is run either faster or slower than real time. In order to preserve the proper slope on a trend when running faster or slower than real time, the time must progress faster or slower than normal and thus is skewed.

This can create a situation in which the time displayed on a trend or alarm is "in the future" or "in the past" with respect to the computer system time.

Simulation Time Control

The ability to freeze or run the simulation and to save and restore snapshots to jump the simulation to a different condition.

SMDH

System Management Display Handler

SMON

System Monitor

Snapshot

An Initial Condition or Backtrack that contains a picture of the state of a simulation engine at a specific point in time.

System Manager

A system management user interface for Microsoft Windows workstations - an alternative to SMDH.

TCP

Transmission Control Protocol

Virtual Driver

SCP installs a protocol, the IA Virtual switch protocol, which acts as the driver for SCP to work along with the CP Host. The IA Virtual switch protocol is installed in a NIC differently from the IA network.