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18/30363160 DC BS EN IEC 61804-3. Function Blocks (FB) for process control and Electronic Device Description Language (EDDL) - Part 3. EDDL syntax and semantics, 2018
- 1 Scope
- 2 Normative references
- 3 Terms, definitions, abbreviated terms and acronyms [Go to Page]
- 3.1 Terms and definitions
- 3.2 Abbreviated terms and acronyms
- 4 Conformance statement
- 5 EDD and EDDL model [Go to Page]
- 5.1 Overview of EDD and EDDL
- 5.2 EDD architecture
- 5.3 Concepts of EDD
- 5.4 Principles of the EDD development process [Go to Page]
- 5.4.1 General
- 5.4.2 EDD source generation
- 5.4.3 EDD preprocessing
- 5.4.4 EDD compilation
- 5.5 Interrelations between the lexical structure and formal definitions
- 5.6 Builtins
- 5.7 Profiles
- 6 Conventions [Go to Page]
- 6.1 General
- 6.2 Conventions for basic construct description
- 6.3 Conventions for lexical structure
- 7 Overview [Go to Page]
- 7.1 EDDL features
- 7.2 Syntax representation
- 7.3 EDD language elements
- 7.4 Basic construction elements [Go to Page]
- 7.4.1 General
- 7.4.2 AXIS
- 7.4.3 BLOB
- 7.4.4 BLOCK_A
- 7.4.5 BLOCK_B
- 7.4.6 CHART
- 7.4.7 COLLECTION
- 7.4.8 COMMAND
- 7.4.9 COMPONENT
- 7.4.10 COMPONENT_FOLDER
- 7.4.11 COMPONENT_REFERENCE
- 7.4.12 COMPONENT_RELATION
- 7.4.13 EDIT_DISPLAY
- 7.4.14 FILE
- 7.4.15 GRAPH
- 7.4.16 GRID
- 7.4.17 IMAGE
- 7.4.18 IMPORT
- 7.4.19 INTERFACE
- 7.4.20 LIKE
- 7.4.21 LIST
- 7.4.22 MENU
- 7.4.23 METHOD
- 7.4.24 PLUGIN
- 7.4.25 RECORD
- 7.4.26 REFERENCE_ARRAY
- 7.4.27 Relations [Go to Page]
- 7.4.27.1 REFRESH
- 7.4.27.2 SEMANTIC_MAP
- 7.4.27.3 UNIT
- 7.4.27.4 WRITE_AS_ONE
- 7.4.28 RESPONSE_CODES
- 7.4.29 SOURCE
- 7.4.30 TEMPLATE
- 7.4.31 VALUE_ARRAY
- 7.4.32 VARIABLE
- 7.4.33 VARIABLE_LIST
- 7.4.34 WAVEFORM
- 7.5 Common attributes
- 7.6 Special elements
- 7.7 Rules for instances
- 7.8 Rules for a list of VARIABLEs
- 8 EDD identification information [Go to Page]
- 8.1 General structure
- 8.2 DD_REVISION
- 8.3 DEVICE_REVISION
- 8.4 DEVICE_TYPE
- 8.5 EDD_PROFILE
- 8.6 EDD_VERSION
- 8.7 LAYOUT_TYPE
- 8.8 MANUFACTURER
- 8.9 MANUFACTURER_EXT
- 9 Data modelling [Go to Page]
- 9.1 VARIABLE [Go to Page]
- 9.1.1 General structure
- 9.1.2 CLASS
- 9.1.3 CONSTANT_UNIT
- 9.1.4 DEFAULT_VALUE
- 9.1.5 INITIAL_VALUE
- 9.1.6 POST_EDIT_ACTIONS
- 9.1.7 POST_READ_ACTIONS
- 9.1.8 POST_RQSTUPDATE_ACTIONS
- 9.1.9 POST_USERCHANGE_ACTIONS
- 9.1.10 POST_WRITE_ACTIONS
- 9.1.11 PRE_EDIT_ACTIONS
- 9.1.12 PRE_READ_ACTIONS
- 9.1.13 PRE_WRITE_ACTIONS
- 9.1.14 REFRESH_ACTIONS
- 9.1.15 TYPE [Go to Page]
- 9.1.15.1 General structure
- 9.1.15.2 MIN_VALUE, MAX_VALUE
- 9.1.15.3 value / description / help
- 9.1.15.4 Arithmetic types [Go to Page]
- 9.1.15.4.1 General structure
- 9.1.15.4.2 DISPLAY_FORMAT
- 9.1.15.4.3 EDIT_FORMAT
- 9.1.15.4.4 SCALING_FACTOR
- 9.1.15.4.5 size
- 9.1.15.5 DATE, DATE_AND_TIME, DURATION, TIME, TIME_VALUE [Go to Page]
- 9.1.15.5.1 General structure
- 9.1.15.5.2 TIME_FORMAT
- 9.1.15.5.3 TIME_SCALE
- 9.1.15.5.4 size
- 9.1.15.6 BIT_ENUMERATED [Go to Page]
- 9.1.15.6.1 General structure
- 9.1.15.6.2 description
- 9.1.15.6.3 value
- 9.1.15.6.4 action
- 9.1.15.6.5 size
- 9.1.15.6.6 status-class
- 9.1.15.7 ENUMERATED [Go to Page]
- 9.1.15.7.1 General structure
- 9.1.15.7.2 size
- 9.1.15.8 INDEX
- 9.1.15.9 OBJECT_REFERENCE
- 9.1.15.10 ASCII, EUC, PACKED_ASCII, PASSWORD, VISIBLE [Go to Page]
- 9.1.15.10.1 General structure
- 9.1.15.10.2 size
- 9.1.15.11 OCTET [Go to Page]
- 9.1.15.11.1 General structure
- 9.1.15.11.2 DISPLAY_FORMAT
- 9.1.15.11.3 EDIT_FORMAT
- 9.1.15.11.4 size
- 9.1.15.12 BITSTRING [Go to Page]
- 9.1.15.12.1 General structure
- 9.1.15.12.2 size
- 9.1.15.13 BOOLEAN
- 9.2 REFERENCE_ARRAY [Go to Page]
- 9.2.1 General structure
- 9.2.2 ELEMENTS
- 9.2.3 item-type
- 9.3 VALUE_ARRAY [Go to Page]
- 9.3.1 General structure
- 9.3.2 NUMBER_OF_ELEMENTS
- 9.3.3 TYPE
- 9.4 LIST [Go to Page]
- 9.4.1 General structure
- 9.4.2 CAPACITY
- 9.4.3 COUNT
- 9.4.4 TYPE
- 9.5 COLLECTION [Go to Page]
- 9.5.1 General structure
- 9.5.2 item-type
- 9.6 FILE [Go to Page]
- 9.6.1 General structure
- 9.6.2 IDENTITY
- 9.6.3 ON_UPDATE_ACTIONS
- 9.6.4 SHARED
- 9.7 Relations [Go to Page]
- 9.7.1 REFRESH
- 9.7.2 SEMANTIC_MAP
- 9.7.3 UNIT
- 9.7.4 WRITE_AS_ONE
- 9.8 BLOB [Go to Page]
- 9.8.1 General structure
- 9.8.2 IDENTITY
- 10 Communication [Go to Page]
- 10.1 COMMAND [Go to Page]
- 10.1.1 General structure
- 10.1.2 Command addressing [Go to Page]
- 10.1.2.1 HART Command addressing
- 10.1.2.2 PROFIBUS DP addressing
- 10.1.2.3 PI Profile for Process Control Devices Addressing
- 10.1.2.4 PROFINET addressing
- 10.1.2.5 Addressing for other protocols
- 10.1.3 API
- 10.1.4 BLOCK_B
- 10.1.5 HEADER
- 10.1.6 INDEX
- 10.1.7 NUMBER
- 10.1.8 OPERATION
- 10.1.9 SLOT
- 10.1.10 SUB_SLOT
- 10.1.11 TRANSACTION [Go to Page]
- 10.1.11.1 General structure
- 10.1.11.2 REPLY
- 10.1.11.3 REQUEST
- 10.1.11.4 item-mask
- 10.1.11.5 Data item qualifiers
- 10.1.11.6 POST_RQSTRECEIVE_ACTIONS
- 10.2 RECORD
- 10.3 RESPONSE_CODES
- 10.4 VARIABLE_LIST
- 11 User interface [Go to Page]
- 11.1 MENU [Go to Page]
- 11.1.1 General structure
- 11.1.2 ACCESS
- 11.1.3 EXIT_ACTIONS
- 11.1.4 INIT_ACTIONS
- 11.1.5 ITEMS
- 11.1.6 POST_EDIT_ACTIONS
- 11.1.7 POST_READ_ACTIONS
- 11.1.8 POST_WRITE_ACTIONS
- 11.1.9 PRE_EDIT_ACTIONS
- 11.1.10 PRE_READ_ACTIONS
- 11.1.11 PRE_WRITE_ACTIONS
- 11.1.12 STYLE
- 11.1.13 Sequence diagrams for actions
- 11.2 EDIT_DISPLAY [Go to Page]
- 11.2.1 General structure
- 11.2.2 EDIT_ITEMS
- 11.2.3 DISPLAY_ITEMS
- 11.2.4 POST_EDIT_ACTIONS
- 11.2.5 PRE_EDIT_ACTIONS
- 11.3 IMAGE [Go to Page]
- 11.3.1 General structure
- 11.3.2 LINK
- 11.3.3 PATH
- 11.4 GRID [Go to Page]
- 11.4.1 General structure
- 11.4.2 ORIENTATION
- 11.4.3 VECTORS
- 11.5 CHART [Go to Page]
- 11.5.1 General structure
- 11.5.2 CYCLE_TIME
- 11.5.3 LENGTH
- 11.5.4 TYPE
- 11.5.5 Sequence diagram for actions
- 11.5.6 CHART Legend/Help rules [Go to Page]
- 11.5.6.1 Meter and Trend (Y_AXIS not defined) – One VARIABLE per SOURCE
- 11.5.6.2 Trend (Y_AXIS not defined) – Two or more VARIABLEs per SOURCE
- 11.5.6.3 Meter (Y_AXIS not defined) – Two or more VARIABLEs per SOURCE
- 11.5.6.4 Trend (Y_AXIS defined) – One VARIABLE per SOURCE & two (or more) shared SOURCEs
- 11.5.6.5 Meter (Y_AXIS defined) – One VARIABLE per SOURCE & two (or more) shared SOURCEs
- 11.6 SOURCE [Go to Page]
- 11.6.1 General structure
- 11.6.2 EXIT_ACTIONS
- 11.6.3 INIT_ACTIONS
- 11.6.4 REFRESH_ACTIONS
- 11.6.5 Y_AXIS
- 11.7 AXIS [Go to Page]
- 11.7.1 General structure
- 11.7.2 MIN_VALUE, MAX_VALUE
- 11.7.3 SCALING
- 11.7.4 CONSTANT_UNIT
- 11.8 GRAPH [Go to Page]
- 11.8.1 General structure
- 11.8.2 CYCLE_TIME
- 11.8.3 X_AXIS
- 11.8.4 Sequence diagram for actions
- 11.9 WAVEFORM [Go to Page]
- 11.9.1 General structure
- 11.9.2 EXIT_ACTIONS
- 11.9.3 INIT_ACTIONS
- 11.9.4 KEY_POINTS [Go to Page]
- 11.9.4.1 General structure
- 11.9.4.2 X_VALUES / Y_VALUES
- 11.9.5 REFRESH_ACTIONS
- 11.9.6 TYPE [Go to Page]
- 11.9.6.1 General structure
- 11.9.6.2 XY
- 11.9.6.3 YT
- 11.9.6.4 HORIZONTAL
- 11.9.6.5 VERTICAL
- 11.9.7 Y_AXIS
- 11.10 PLUGIN [Go to Page]
- 11.10.1 General structure
- 11.10.2 UUID
- 12 Business Logic [Go to Page]
- 12.1 METHOD [Go to Page]
- 12.1.1 General structure
- 12.1.2 ACCESS
- 12.1.3 CLASS
- 12.1.4 TYPE
- 13 Device modelling [Go to Page]
- 13.1 BLOCK_A [Go to Page]
- 13.1.1 General structure
- 13.1.2 AXIS_ITEMS
- 13.1.3 CHARACTERISTICS
- 13.1.4 CHARTS
- 13.1.5 CHART_ITEMS
- 13.1.6 COLLECTION_ITEMS
- 13.1.7 EDIT_DISPLAY_ITEMS
- 13.1.8 FILES
- 13.1.9 FILE_ITEMS
- 13.1.10 GRAPHS
- 13.1.11 GRAPH_ITEMS
- 13.1.12 GRIDS
- 13.1.13 GRID_ITEMS
- 13.1.14 IMAGE_ITEMS
- 13.1.15 ITEM_ARRAY_ITEMS
- 13.1.16 LISTS
- 13.1.17 LIST_ITEMS
- 13.1.18 LOCAL_PARAMETERS
- 13.1.19 MENUS
- 13.1.20 MENU_ITEMS
- 13.1.21 METHODS
- 13.1.22 METHOD_ITEMS
- 13.1.23 PARAMETERS
- 13.1.24 PARAMETER_LISTS
- 13.1.25 PLUGINS
- 13.1.26 PLUGIN_ITEMS
- 13.1.27 REFRESH_ITEMS
- 13.1.28 SEMANTIC_MAP_ITEMS
- 13.1.29 SOURCE_ITEMS
- 13.1.30 UNIT_ITEMS
- 13.1.31 WAVEFORM_ITEMS
- 13.1.32 WRITE_AS_ONE_ITEMS
- 13.2 BLOCK_B [Go to Page]
- 13.2.1 General structure
- 13.2.2 NUMBER
- 13.2.3 TYPE
- 13.3 LIKE
- 13.4 IMPORT [Go to Page]
- 13.4.1 General structure
- 13.5 TEMPLATE [Go to Page]
- 13.5.1 General structure
- 13.5.2 DEFAULT_VALUES
- 13.6 COMPONENT [Go to Page]
- 13.6.1 General structure
- 13.6.2 BYTE_ORDER
- 13.6.3 CAN_DELETE
- 13.6.4 CHECK_CONFIGURATION
- 13.6.5 COMPONENT_RELATIONS
- 13.6.6 CONNECTION_POINT
- 13.6.7 DETECT
- 13.6.8 EDD
- 13.6.9 INITIAL_VALUES
- 13.6.10 REDUNDANCY
- 13.6.11 SCAN
- 13.6.12 SCAN_LIST
- 13.6.13 PRODUCT_URI
- 13.7 COMPONENT_FOLDER
- 13.8 COMPONENT_REFERENCE
- 13.9 COMPONENT_RELATION [Go to Page]
- 13.9.1 General structure
- 13.9.2 COMPONENTS
- 13.9.3 RELATION_TYPE
- 13.9.4 ADDRESSING
- 13.9.5 MAXIMUM_NUMBER
- 13.9.6 MINIMUM_NUMBER
- 13.9.7 REQUIRED_INTERFACE
- 13.10 INTERFACE [Go to Page]
- 13.10.1 General structure
- 13.10.2 DECLARATION
- 14 Common attributes [Go to Page]
- 14.1 CLASSIFICATION
- 14.2 COMPONENT_PARENT
- 14.3 COMPONENT_PATH
- 14.4 DEFINITION
- 14.5 EMPHASIS
- 14.6 HANDLING
- 14.7 HEIGHT
- 14.8 HELP
- 14.9 LABEL
- 14.10 LINE_COLOR
- 14.11 LINE_TYPE
- 14.12 MEMBERS
- 14.13 PRIVATE
- 14.14 PROTOCOL
- 14.15 RESPONSE_CODES
- 14.16 SUPPLIED_INTERFACE
- 14.17 VALIDITY
- 14.18 VISIBILITY
- 14.19 WIDTH
- 14.20 WRITE_MODE
- 15 Redefinitions [Go to Page]
- 15.1 Overview
- 15.2 AXIS
- 15.3 BLOB
- 15.4 BLOCK_A
- 15.5 BLOCK_B
- 15.6 CHART
- 15.7 COLLECTION
- 15.8 COMMAND
- 15.9 COMPONENT
- 15.10 COMPONENT_FOLDER
- 15.11 COMPONENT_REFERENCE
- 15.12 COMPONENT_RELATION
- 15.13 EDIT_DISPLAY
- 15.14 FILE
- 15.15 GRAPH
- 15.16 GRID
- 15.17 IMAGE
- 15.18 INTERFACE
- 15.19 LIST
- 15.20 MENU
- 15.21 METHOD
- 15.22 PLUGIN
- 15.23 RECORD
- 15.24 REFERENCE_ARRAY
- 15.25 RESPONSE_CODES
- 15.26 SOURCE
- 15.27 TEMPLATE
- 15.28 VALUE_ARRAY
- 15.29 VARIABLE
- 15.30 VARIABLE_LIST
- 15.31 WAVEFORM
- 16 Referencing [Go to Page]
- 16.1 Referencing an EDD instance
- 16.2 Referencing AXIS of a GRAPH, SOURCE, WAVEFORM
- 16.3 Referencing bits of a BIT_ENUMERATED VARIABLE
- 16.4 Referencing members of a CHART
- 16.5 Referencing members of a COLLECTION
- 16.6 Referencing COMPONENT instances
- 16.7 Referencing COMPONENT types
- 16.8 Referencing members of a FILE
- 16.9 Referencing members of a GRAPH
- 16.10 Referencing elements of a LIST
- 16.11 Referencing members of a RECORD
- 16.12 Referencing elements of a REFERENCE_ARRAY
- 16.13 Referencing members of a SOURCE
- 16.14 Referencing elements of a VALUE_ARRAY
- 16.15 Referencing members of a VARIABLE_LISTS
- 16.16 Referencing BLOCK_A CHARACTERISTICS
- 16.17 Referencing elements of BLOCK_A LOCAL_PARAMETERS
- 16.18 Referencing elements of BLOCK_A PARAMETERS
- 16.19 Referencing elements of BLOCK_A PARAMETER_LISTS
- 16.20 Referencing CHARACTERISTICS of specific BLOCK_A instance
- 16.21 Referencing CHARTS of specific BLOCK_A instance
- 16.22 Referencing FILES of specific BLOCK_A instance
- 16.23 Referencing GRAPHS of specific BLOCK_A instance
- 16.24 Referencing GRIDS of specific BLOCK_A instance
- 16.25 Referencing LISTS of specific BLOCK_A instance
- 16.26 Referencing LOCAL_PARAMETERS of specific BLOCK_A instance
- 16.27 Referencing MENUS of specific BLOCK_A instance
- 16.28 Referencing METHODS of specific BLOCK_A instance
- 16.29 Referencing PARAMETERS of specific BLOCK_A instance
- 16.30 Referencing PLUGINS of specific BLOCK_A instance
- 17 Strings [Go to Page]
- 17.1 Specifying a string as a string literal
- 17.2 Specifying a string as a string variable
- 17.3 Specifying a string as an enumeration value
- 17.4 Specifying a string as a dictionary reference
- 17.5 Referencing HELP and LABEL attributes of EDD instances
- 17.6 String operations
- 18 Conditional expression [Go to Page]
- 18.1 General structure
- 18.2 IF Conditional
- 18.3 SELECT Conditional
- 19 Expression [Go to Page]
- 19.1 General structure
- 19.2 Primary expressions
- 19.3 Unary expressions
- 19.4 Binary expressions [Go to Page]
- 19.4.1 General structure
- 19.4.2 Multiplicative operators
- 19.4.3 Additive operators
- 19.4.4 Shift operators
- 19.4.5 Relational operators
- 19.4.6 Equality operators
- 19.4.7 Bitwise AND operator (&)
- 19.4.8 Bitwise XOR operator (^)
- 19.4.9 Bitwise OR operator (|)
- 19.4.10 Logical AND operator (&&)
- 19.4.11 Logical OR operator (||)
- 19.4.12 Conditional evaluation
- 20 Text dictionary
- Annex A (normative) EDDL formal definition [Go to Page]
- A.1 EDDL preprocessor [Go to Page]
- A.1.1 General structure
- A.1.2 Directives [Go to Page]
- A.1.2.1 #define
- A.1.2.2 #include
- A.1.2.3 #line
- A.1.2.4 #if, #elif, #else, and #endif
- A.1.2.5 #ifdef, #ifndef and #undef
- A.1.3 Predefined macros [Go to Page]
- A.1.3.1 General structure
- A.1.3.2 List of predefined macros [Go to Page]
- A.1.3.2.1 __FILE__
- A.1.3.2.2 __LINE__
- A.1.4 NEWLINE characters
- A.1.5 Comments
- A.2 Conventions [Go to Page]
- A.2.1 Integer constants
- A.2.2 Floating-point constants
- A.2.3 String literals
- A.2.4 Using language and country codes in string literals
- A.3 Operators
- A.4 Keywords
- A.5 Symbols and symbol scope
- A.6 Terminals
- A.7 Formal EDDL syntax [Go to Page]
- A.7.1 General
- A.7.2 EDD identification information
- A.7.3 AXIS
- A.7.4 BLOCK_A and BLOCK_B
- A.7.5 CHART
- A.7.6 COLLECTION
- A.7.7 COMMAND
- A.7.8 COMPONENT
- A.7.9 COMPONENT_FOLDER
- A.7.10 COMPONENT_REFERENCE
- A.7.11 COMPONENT_RELATION
- A.7.12 EDIT_DISPLAY
- A.7.13 FILE
- A.7.14 GRAPH
- A.7.15 GRID
- A.7.16 IMAGE
- A.7.17 INTERFACE
- A.7.18 LIST
- A.7.19 IMPORT
- A.7.20 LIKE
- A.7.21 MENU
- A.7.22 METHOD
- A.7.23 RECORD
- A.7.24 REFERENCE_ARRAY
- A.7.25 Relations
- A.7.26 RESPONSE_CODES
- A.7.27 SOURCE
- A.7.28 TEMPLATE
- A.7.29 VALUE_ARRAY
- A.7.30 VARIABLE
- A.7.31 VARIABLE_LIST
- A.7.32 WAVEFORM
- A.7.33 Common attributes
- A.7.34 Expression
- A.7.35 C-Grammar
- A.7.36 Redefinition
- A.7.37 References
- A.7.38 PLUGIN
- A.7.39 BLOB
- A.7.40 SEMANTIC_MAP
- A.8 Formal dictionary syntax
- Annex B (normative) Data types [Go to Page]
- B.1 METHOD DEFINITION data types
- B.2 VARIABLE TYPE data types [Go to Page]
- B.2.1 General
- B.2.2 Coding of data DATE
- B.2.3 Coding of data DATE_AND_TIME
- B.2.4 Coding of data DURATION
- B.2.5 Coding of data TIME
- B.2.6 Coding of data TIME_VALUE
- B.2.7 Coding of PACKED_ASCII (6-BIT ASCII) DATA FORMAT
- B.2.8 Coding of BOOLEAN
- B.2.9 Coding of BIT_ENUMERATED
- Annex C (informative) EDD example [Go to Page]
- C.1 EDD example of a temperature transmitter
- C.2 EDD example [Go to Page]
