Instruction manual

Verifying an Island Configuration
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890USE18000 September 2003
Verifying Your Island Configuration
Overview Before you download your island configuration to a physical island, you must verify
that your configuration is valid. You do this by performing a build.
Launching a
Build
To verify your configuration, click on the button. A Build in progress dialog
box appears. As the software builds your .isl file, it checks the data to make sure it
conforms to Advantys STB design rules.
Design Rules
that Are Checked
by the Software
One and only one NIM shall be present on the island, and it shall be the first
module on the primary rail.
A PDM shall be directly to the right of the NIM.
The voltage distributed by all PDMs on the island shall be appropriate for the I/O
modules they support.
The I/O modules on each rail shall consume no more than a total of 1.2 A of logic
power.
There shall be no more than seven rails (one primary and six extensions) on the
island.
A BOS module shall be the first module on every extension rail.
A PDM shall be directly to the right of each BOS module on the extension rail(s).
The input modules in a voltage group should not draw a total of more than 4 A of
sensor power from the PDM that supports them. The software will produce a soft
warning if this condition is detected, and the build will continue.
The output modules in a voltage group should not draw a total of more than 8 A
of actuator power from the PDM that supports them. The software will produce a
soft warning if this condition is detected, and the build will continue.
There shall be no more than 32 I/O modules across all the rails on the island.
There shall be no more than 10 prioritized (See Module Priority, p. 53) input
modules on the island.
There shall be no more than 10 reflex action blocks in the island configuration.
No more than two reflex blocks shall be configured for any one output module on
the island.
If an output module has reflex blocks mapped to it, it shall be able to support
those reflex type(s).
If an HMI panel is used on the island, the maximum size of the HMI input/output
table shall not exceed the size that you have configured. The HMI table size is a
user-configurable parameter for the NIM, which you set in the module editor (See
The Module Editor, p. 50).
The size of the HMI input/output table plus the block required for standard I/O
data exchange shall not exceed the maximum data exchange size imposed by
your fieldbus. Refer to your NIM documentation for this limit.