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I am currently on a project that is close to the point of making a purchase of a Foundation Fieldbus (FF) control system with most of the field measurement and all of the control outputs using FF.
The client is in a, errm, shall we say, unenlightened part of the globe and will insist I'm sure on a 100% Factory Acceptance Test (FAT) using real world devices and probably won't accept a purely software checking approach.
My question is this, are there any software or hardware simulators that can emulate a FF segment ? I have searched the internet but have come up blank on this. What I'm looking for can be thought of as a similar thing to a Modbus software emulator. What I want to avoid is the need to hook up (and configure) a set of instruments to each segment for the FAT as it will take forever.
The client is in a, errm, shall we say, unenlightened part of the globe and will insist I'm sure on a 100% Factory Acceptance Test (FAT) using real world devices and probably won't accept a purely software checking approach.
My question is this, are there any software or hardware simulators that can emulate a FF segment ? I have searched the internet but have come up blank on this. What I'm looking for can be thought of as a similar thing to a Modbus software emulator. What I want to avoid is the need to hook up (and configure) a set of instruments to each segment for the FAT as it will take forever.