ABBAdvant Fieldbus 100 User Manual

About This User Manual

General

This manual provides a general physical and functional description of 

Advant Fieldbus 100 hardware and provides detailed information for installation, 

service, and maintenance. 

Audience

The manual is intended for ABB personnel as well as for the customers maintenance 

personnel.

The reader is assumed to be familiar with the Advant Controller 70, 

Advant Controller 110, Advant Controller 400 Series, AC 800M controller, 

S800 I/O Stations and/or AC 100 OPC Server, the relevant data base elements, and 

the Advant Station 140 Engineering Station. For further information, see Table 2.

Manual Organization

This manual contains:

• Section 1, Introduction

This section presents an overview of this document and the product it 

describes, Advant Fieldbus 100.

• Section 2, Advant Fieldbus 100 Concepts

This section introduces the major concepts of the Advant Fieldbus 100 

network.

• Section 3, Configuration of Advant Fieldbus 100

This section presents the configuration of the Advant Fieldbus 100.

• Section 4, Installation and Start-up

This section describes the installation and start-up procedure.

• Section 5, Maintenance and Fault Tracing

This section describes the maintenance and diagnostics.

• Appendix A, Technical Data

This appendix describes the physical features and technical data of different 

communication interfaces.

• Appendix B, Low Layers of Advant Fieldbus 100

This appendix describes technical details of the low layers implementing the 

AF 100 communication. The information presented is not necessary to install 

and maintain a Advant Fieldbus 100 network. It merely completes the technical 

description and is intended for the curious reader only.

Document Conventions

In this document, the AF 100 units are generally named without suffix Vx or A 

unless it is necessary for the functionally described. CI810 is the general term for 

CI810/CI810V1/CI810V2/CI810A.

For example, if media redundancy is described, and the description for S800 Field 

Communication Interface (FCI) states that the unit to use is 

CI810V1/CI810V2/CI810A or CI810V1, it implicitly includes CI810V2/CI810A. 

For verification, refer to Table 6.

Microsoft Windows conventions are normally used for the standard presentation of 

material when entering text, key sequences, prompts, messages, menu items, screen 

elements, etc.

Feature Pack

The Feature Pack content (including text, tables, and figures) included in this 

User Manual is distinguished from the existing content using the following 

two separators:

Feature Pack functionality included in an existing table is indicated using a 

table footnote (*) :

*Feature Pack Functionality

Feature Pack functionality in an existing figure is indicated using callouts.

Unless noted, all other information in this User Manual applies to 800xA Systems 

with or without a Feature Pack installed.

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electrical shock.

Warning icon indicates the presence of a hazard which could result in personal 

injury.

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result in corruption of software or damage to equipment/property.

Information icon alerts the reader to pertinent facts and conditions.

Tip icon indicates advice on, for example, how to design your project or how to 

use a certain function

This publication includes Warning, Caution, and Information where appropriate 

to point out safety related or other important information. It also includes Tip to 

point out useful hints to the reader. The corresponding symbols should be 

interpreted as follows:

Although Warning hazards are related to personal injury, and Caution hazards are 

associated with equipment or property damage, it should be understood that 

operation of damaged equipment could, under certain operational conditions, result 

in degraded process performance leading to personal injury or death. Therefore, 

fully comply with all Warning and Caution notices.

Section 1 Introduction

Product Overview

Advant Fieldbus 100 (AF 100) is a high performance fieldbus, which is used for:

• Communication between Advant Controllers

• Communication between Advant Controllers and S800 I/O Stations, AC 800M 

controllers, AC 100 OPC Server, and the equipments developed and sold by 

other ABB companies.

In an AF 100 bus, it is possible to reach up to 80 stations within a total physical 

distance of up to 13300 meters (43300 feet). 

Advant Fieldbus supports three transmission media:

• Twisted pair (Twp)

• Coaxial (RG59 and RG11)

• Optical media.

An AF 100 bus can be built up with all the three media, where a part of one kind of 

media is a specific segment. 

The following rules apply to the segments:

• To each twisted pair segment, 32 stations can be connected, and the maximum 

segment length is 750 meters (2500 feet)