ControlWave Designer Product Data Sheet

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ControlWave Designer
ControlWave® Designer, from Emerson Process ControlWave Designer includes an extensive library of more
Management, is a fully IEC 61131-3 compliant than 200 basic IEC 61131-3 functions and function blocks
programming environment for configuration of continuous common to many IEC 61131-3 based products.
and discrete control applications. The advantages offered by
These include:
IEC 61131-3 have made it the emerging international
standard programming environment and is currently  Flip-flops, Counters & Timers
employed by most all PLC manufacturers. As a result of its
 Ladder diagram functions – coils and contacts, etc.
standardization and widespread acceptance, it allows
controls engineers the flexibility to choose the most  Numerical, Arithmetic & Boolean functions – Sine,
appropriate controller hardware system without the Cosine, Add, Sub, Square Root, And, Or, etc.
necessity of learning a new programming language for each  Selection & Comparison – Min, Max, Greater than,
platform. The flexibility of IEC 61131-3 further allows each Equal, Less than, etc.
manufacturer to augment the basic set of functions with  Type conversions – Integer to Real, Boolean to Word,
product specific higher level functions to take maximum etc.
advantage of each product’s distinguishing capabilities, yet
strictly adhere to the IEC 61131-3 standards. ACCOL III Function Block Library
ControlWave Designer is based on a modern Windows Speeds Application Development
technology, offering standard functionality of zooming,
scrolling, customizable toolbars, drag & drop operations, In addition to the basic functions and function blocks,
shortcut manager, and dockable windows. Designer is used ControlWave Designer brings the benefit of over twenty
to create, edit, compile, debug, document and print, simple years of SCADA and plant control experience in Emerson’s
as well as very complex process control applications. ACCOL III function block library. ACCOL III includes

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over sixty function blocks valuable for use in oil and gas, o Alarm descriptor text string
water and wastewater, and process measurement & control o Reports single, momentary and multiple alarm
applications. Further, ACCOL III is designed to take full conditions since last report
advantage of the significant features offered by
ControlWave. Briefly, this library includes function blocks  Discrete Alarm Function Block
for: o Detects selectable On or Off status
o Alarm reports may be enabled or disabled to
 Average, Compare, Totalize suppress nuisance alarms
 Scheduling & Sequencing o Alarm Priority – Event, Operator guide, Non-
 PID & Lead/Lag critical or Critical
 AGA gas flow and liquids calculations o Alarm descriptor text string
 Alarming and Historical Storage o Reports single, momentary and multiple alarm
 File handling conditions since last report
Most of the ACCOL III function blocks offer the same  Change of State Alarm Function Block
functionality available to Network 3000 RTUs, controllers, o Detects discrete change of state from On to Off or
and flow computers. This greatly simplifies migration to from Off to On
ControlWave for existing Network 3000 users. To further o Alarm reports may be enabled or disabled to
provide forward compatibility, the ACCOL Translator suppress nuisance alarms
converts most ACCOL functions into ControlWave Designer o Alarm Priority – Event, Operator guide, Non-
Structured Text, thus allowing you to leverage previous critical or Critical
ACCOL development.
o Alarm descriptor text string
Even without previous ACCOL experience, engineers will
appreciate the power of ACCOL III for performing the most Reports single, momentary and multiple alarm conditions
common process measurement and control applications. since last report
Alarms may be transmitted to up to four network connected
Alarm System PCs. Other PCs may obtain the alarm reports from the four
declared PCs. At any time the operator may request all
One of the most important functions of any process
current unacknowledged alarms be re-reported. This is
automation system is to detect and report alarm conditions.
particularly useful for PC HMI software products that do not
ControlWave Designer with ACCOL III provides the
store the system alarm history. In this case the alarm history
capability of adding any analog or logical variable to an
can be obtained from ControlWave at the operators
alarm function block to detect, time stamp, store and report
discretion.
analog limit, discrete status, and change of state alarms.
Unlike most other systems, ControlWave detects, time Historical System
stamps, and stores alarms locally in the controller rather
than at the PC level, ensuring that alarms are detected even Again, most systems rely on the PC to collect and store
in the event of a communication failure. Alarms are then historical data. But what happens when the data can’t be
reported to the PC once the communication link is re- collected due to a communication line failure. ControlWave
established. The Alarm Record Queue size is configurable. ensures that important audit and archive data is securely
The default is one hundred alarms. Once full, the oldest stored, with time stamp, in the controller. To accomplish
alarms will be maintained with time stamp. New alarms will this, the Designer allows configuration of two special
be logged but without a time stamp until some of the older historical function blocks.
alarm space is freed through reporting. Alarms are time The historical data may be logged to either RAM or non-
stamped to 1 ms for internal action and reported to the PC volatile Flash memory. The data is maintained even after a
with a resolution of 20 ms. cold start or application downloading.
The following alarm blocks and types are supported: Archive Function Block
 Analog Alarm Function Block Historical archive files are similar to data arrays, except that
o Detects High, High-High, Low and Low-Low each column is directly associated with a particular
alarms ControlWave variable, and each column has a descriptive
o Independent deadbands are provided for high and title. The first column of each row contains a time stamp,
low alarms and the remaining columns in a given row are the variable
o Alarm reports may be enabled or disabled to values or results of calculations based on variable values
collected at the time specified by the time stamp. The data
suppress nuisance alarms
o Alarm Priority – Event, Operator guide, Non-
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occupying a particular row is referred to as a record; a record Ladder Diagram (LD) employs the elements common to
index is kept which points to the row containing the current traditional PLCs’ such as normally open & normally closed
record. contacts and coils. Ladder is typically used for sequential
logic, interlocks and on/off control applications.
Data storage interval may be 1 minute, 5 minutes, 15
minutes, hourly, or daily. Each file can be up to 64 Kb
OpenBSI Utilities provides facilities to collect this Audit and
Archived data, on a scheduled or demand basis, and present
them in useful formats including .CSV and ODBC Access
formats.
The Audit System is responsible for detecting and logging of
selected events and alarms. The Audit system is very
Ladder Diagram
application specific. It is often used in applications requiring
quality tracking and reporting. Certain alarms, perhaps a Function Block Diagram (FDB) is a graphical programming
high alarm on a pressure measurement, can be recorded in language that resembles the P&I drawings or circuit
the Audit. Significant events may also be recorded. For diagrams commonly found in process control applications.
example, a maintenance technician might replace a valve or The graphical representation makes analog control loops
a pump with different operating characteristics. visually easy to understand and auto-documents the control
scheme.
Audit Function Block
The Audit function blocks allow separate logs for alarms and
events. For all alarm signals in the controller, the Audit
Function Block generates a one-line message when the
alarm signal goes into its alarm state, or when it returns to
normal after having been in alarm. An event message is
generated for signals that are included in a special signal list.
Time stamp resolution for alarm and event message in the
Audit storage is 1 ms. Reported alarm resolution is 20 ms.
Each log can be up to 64 Kb

Variable Extension Wizard

This utility which runs from within ControlWave Designer
allows you to create initialization files (*.INI) which assist in Function Block Diagram
batch configuration of variables within the ControlWave
controller. Function Block Diagram programs also allow the use of
Ladder Logic in the same program. With Designer, you can
The information in these initialization files is incorporated even have Ladder objects as inputs to FB and outputs from
into the ControlWave project when they are read using the FB objects. User Defined Function Blocks can be used in
either the DB_LOAD or RBE function blocks. The Function Block programs as well.
initialization files may be used to:
Structured Text (ST) is a high level text based language
 Configure lists – Identify variables which should be containing all the elements of a modern programming
collected via Report by Exception language. As well as providing a convenient method of
 Configure alarms – Configure descriptive text, including the library of function blocks and creating custom
ON/OFF text, inhibit/enable flags, or units text function blocks, it allows IF-THEN-ELSE and other
conditional branching statements.
Language Support - Why Settle For
Only One?
While many IEC 61131-3 programming tools offer only
Ladder Diagram or a limited set of languages, ControlWave
supports all five languages available in the IEC 61131-3
standard. The first three are graphical programming
languages; Ladder Diagram, Sequential Function Chart, and
Function Block Diagram. The latter two, Structured Text and
Instruction List are text-based languages. Any or all five
Structured Text
languages may be used to implement a process control
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Sequential Function Chart (SFC) allows sequential

operations to be programmed in a graphical manner similar
Multitasking Operation
to a flow chart. The steps represent the actions, which can ControlWave runs in a Multitasking environment where
be performed in sequence or in parallel, and the transitions program execution can be scheduled and prioritized. While
represent the conditions that must be completed in order to ControlWave scan times are extremely fast, multitasking
advance to the next step. capability gives you control over critical task execution.

Program Security
For program security, the entire program, all associated
variables, and graphics can be zipped into a single file. This
project file can then be downloaded, stored in ControlWave
memory, and later uploaded for recovery or modification by
the Designer software. All variable names, graphics,
comments and page layouts are uploaded with the
application program so that the uploaded project is
Sequential Function Chart identical to the original downloaded file. In addition, the
Instruction List (IL) is also a text-based language similar to zipped project source is automatically downloaded along
assembly language and as such it is somewhat less popular with the application executable to ensure synchronization
than the other four languages. between the source and the executing application program.

I/O Configuration Wizard

The ControlWave Designer I/O Configuration Wizard
simplifies the connection between the IEC 61131-3
application program and the physical ControlWave local I/O
and Remote I/O modules. While I/O assignment can also be
accomplished in the I/O_Configuration section of IEC
61131-3, the ControlWave Designer I/O Configuration
Wizard provides a self-prompting point and click menu
system to simplify programming and eliminate syntax
errors.

Instruction List

User Defined Function Blocks –

Reusable Applications
With ControlWave Designer, once a program containing
one or more Functions or Function blocks is created and
tested, it can be saved to a User Defined Function Block
Library. Then, this new User Defined Function Block (object)
can be reused any number of times and can even be
transported to other projects. The User Defined Function
Blocks have reassignable inputs and outputs so each
instance of the function block can have different variables
attached to the terminals. Each new project can draw on
previous development to significantly reduce
implementation time. Engineers have found this object
oriented programming concept, available in Designer, to be
an extremely valuable tool in application development.

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System Variable Wizard I/O Simulator

Numerous system variables are maintained in ControlWave The ControlWave Designer I/O Simulator allows the
and the Designer System Variable Wizard gives the user Application load program to be tested on a PC, with
access to them by simply selecting those desired in the simulated analog and digital inputs and outputs.
Wizard menu.
System variables are used for:
 Control start up and power up execution and control
 Monitoring the efficiency of task execution and start
up
 Accessing the system date and time
 Viewing diagnostic information about the
communication ports
A system variable is also available to provide a port data line
monitor. By viewing the variable, an engineer can view the
communication message stream through the port. This is an
extremely powerful feature available to those familiar with
data line monitor capability.

On-line Program Debug Tools

No matter how experienced the engineer, there is always a
need for powerful software debug tools. ControlWave
Designer offers a comprehensive set of on-line tools to help I/O Simulator
you test, analyze and troubleshoot your application
The I/O Simulator utilizes the identical real time operating
program. Real-time data values and program execution are
system used in the ControlWave unit; this allows initial I/O
displayed for all five languages.
testing and debugging to be performed in a safe, isolated
The Variables Cross Reference list contains all variables, environment, without the need for a running ControlWave
function blocks, actions, transitions, steps, jumps, labels and unit and process I/O boards.
connectors which are used within the current project. It is a
helpful tool for debugging and fault isolation. ObjectServer Database Open
The Logic Analyzer is a powerful tool for recording values of Connectivity
variables over a certain time interval. They are displayed
graphically in the Logic Analyzer window. All recorded Variables in ControlWave Process Automation Controllers
values and settings of the Logic Analyzer are stored can be accessed using ObjectServer software. All variables
automatically with the project. marked as “CSV” in the variable declaration page are
included in an ASCII file generated by the OpenBSI Signal
The Watch Window can be used to collect variables from Extractor utility. This means that you only create one
different worksheets to gain an understanding about how database, using ControlWave Designer, then automatically
these variables work together. In addition you can use the construct the ObjectServer database from that source. Now
watch window to force and overwrite variables. any OPC compliant client HMI or SCADA application has
access to ControlWave variables and alarms. By adhering to
Breakpoint, Single Step and Single Cycle program execution
open standards, ControlWave simplifies this process and
provides a step and trace function that is extremely useful
your life.
for program debugging. These functions allow you to
continue the program execution line by line after a
breakpoint has been reached.
Specifications
 CPU: 2 GHz Pentium 4 class PC (recommended)
Power Flow  RAM: 512 MB (Windows XP) or 1 GB (Windows 7)
For graphical worksheets, IL and ST worksheets, you can  Disk Space: 1 GB free space
switch from the Variable Status to the Address Status with  Comm: RS 232 or 10/100 MHz Ethernet
Powerflow and vice versa. Powerflow displays which  Display: True Color
program parts are actually executed and which ones not.
 Drive: CD-ROM
This is useful for debugging worksheets with conditional
jumps.  Operating System: Windows XP (SP3) or Windows 7

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ACCOL III Function Blocks

Function Block Description

AGA 3, AGA3DENS, AGA3I, Natural gas flow calculations for orifice and turbine measurement complicant with the
AGA3SELECT, AGA3TERM, appropriate American Gas Association specifications.
AGA5, AGA7, AGA8DETAIL,
AGA8GROSS, AGA10
ALARM Analog, logical and change of state alarm detection and reporting.
ANOUT Provides anit-reset windup track and reset feedback to PID controller.
ARCHIVE Allows variables to be time-stamped and stored in historical Archive files as raw or pre-
calculated values.
AUDIT, AUDIT_SELECTED Provides a history of significant events for selected process variables and alarm variables.
AUTOADJUST Performs adjusted volume calculations and self-check calculations for an Invensys
(Equimeter) Auto-adjust Turbine Meter.
AVERAGER Computes the time-average and integral of an analog or logical input.
BTI Allows CW_10, CW_30, and CW_35 controllers with the BBTI board to collect data from
the Bristol Teletrans™ Model 3508 Transmitter.
CLIENT/SERVER Provides peer-to-peer and master/slave communication between ControlWave nodes
COMMAND Provides a flexible start­up control for a wide range of equipment such as motors, valves or
pumps. This Function Block initiates a programmable delay period between an input and
output change.
COMPARATOR Compares two analog inputs to determine selection of an output.
CRC Allows the user to calculate a Cyclic Redundancy Code (CRC) for a given data array of type
USINT. Used to provide CRC checking with the Generic Serial Protocol Function Block.
CUSTOM Allows the user to configure an Emerson controller to communicate with other
manufacturer’s programmable logic controllers and networks.
DACCUMULATOR Allows certain arithmetic operations to be performed on double-precision floating point
numbers.
DB_LOAD Loads variable information from text files. These files are created in the resource directory
of the application and downloaded automatically as part of the project. DB_LOAD
supports large variable lists and minimizes memory requirements.
DEMUX Performs a demultiplex operation by sending an input value to a selected location in an
output list.
DIAL_CTRL Allows establishing a communication link between two compatible modems on the public
telephone system network. At present only the external modems are supported. The
Modem interface is independent and not part of any communication protocol. This allows
the DIAL_CTRL FB to perform dialing / modem setup operations independent of the
underlying communication protocol, BSAP, Custom, Generic Serial, etc., at the target port.
Application has full control over the dial/hang-up and/or modem setup functions.
DIFFERENTIATOR Calculates the rate of change of an input.
DISPLAY Used to configure the Bristol 2 button and 25 button keypad and display connected to a
controller. This will allow an operator to view/change signal data or be allowed to scroll
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Function Block Description

ENCODE This Function Block will do the following:

 Convert packed Julian date/time to REAL values.
 Convert REAL values to packed Julian date/time.
 Convert system date/time to REAL values.
EVP Calculates the equilibrium vapor pressure for a liquid.
FIELDBUS Interfaces with FFbus devices via a bridge server.
FILE Provides program control to open, close, delete, read and write files.
FPV Computes the super compressibility factor (Fpv) of a gas measured in accordance with the
American Gas Association Report No. NX-19.
FUNCTION Performs a table lookup based on array row and column inputs.
GENERIC_SERIAL Allows the engineer to write custom serial protocols to third party devices through
message read and write.
GPA8173 Converts the mass of natural gas liquids to equivalent liquid volumes at base conditions.
GSV Converts the gross standard volume for a liquid.
HART Interface to HART® field devices via serial port or I/O board.
HILOLIMITER Compares the value of an input to a predefined min and max.
HILOSELECT Selects the largest and smallest values from a set of inputs.
HWSTI Honeywell Smart Transmitter Interface.
IEC62591 Allows a ControlWave Micro controller with an IEC62591 Interface module to
communicate to IEC62591 wireless devices.
INTEGRATOR Computes an integral approximation of an input value.
ISO5167 Calculates flow rate for Orifice plates, Nozzles, Venturi tubes, and Venturi-nozzle Primary
Devices as specified in the International Organization for Standardization’s International
Standard ISO 5167-1980 (E), 1980 edition.
LEAD_LAG Performs a controlled delay on changes based on a given input. Module can also be use for
simulation of process lag.
LIQ Liquids measurements for density ‘A’ and temperature ‘B’ tables 5, 6, 23, 24, 53, 54, 59
and 60. Also, F1 and F1M compressibility.
LIST_ELE_NAME Fetches the variable name for a given list element.
LIST10, 20, 30, 50 & 100 This is a list of up to 10, 20, 30, & 50 input or output variables.
MUX Performs a multiplex operation by selecting from a group of inputs, and applying that
selected input to an output.
PDO Allows the user to produce pulses of variable width (Pulse Duration Output) at the digital
output field wiring terminals.
PID3TERM Provides a process control algorithm which allows proportional (P), proportional/integral
(PI) or proportional/integral/derivative (PID) modes.
PORT_CTRL Allows the user to manually control the Data Terminal Ready (DTR) output of a selected
communications port. Setting DTR to FALSE will disable the selected port and place it in
low power mode.
R_INT Truncates a value to an integer, eliminating any fractional Portion.
R_RND Rounds an input value up to the next highest integer.
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Function Block Description

REDUN_SWITCH Performs a software controlled fail-over to the Redundant Standby unit in a redundant
system.
REG_ARRAY Allows the user to register arrays for the purpose of retrieval by the external HMI systems.
SCHEDULER Block is used to equalize the elapsed running time of a number of external devices such as
pumps and motors. It provides a device work list that can be scheduled by one of four
algorithms that determine the sequence operation.
SEQUENCER Block is used in applications where a number of operations must be performed on a
repetitive or sequential basis such as valve sequencing. The function block accepts a list of
up to 255 BOOL inputs and provides output to a corresponding list of BOOL outputs. These
inputs and outputs can represent valve patterns.
STEPPER The Stepper Module performs a series of sequential operations on a number of outputs (1-
255). It is particularly useful in applications where external equipment must be activated in
sequence for certain fixed time periods, such as during water filter backwash operations.
TCHECK Provides status checking and data processing for a 3508 TeleTrans™ Transmitter.
TOT_TRND Totalizes a scaled input value over a set of fixed time intervals.
USERS_ACTIVE Returns information on all currently signed-in users.
USERS_DEFINED Allows encrypted access to the security configuration of the ControlWave.
VAR_ATTRIB, VAR_CI Provides software control of the Manual, Inhibit and Alarm attributes.
VIRT_PORT Provides serial port expansion through a terminal server.
VLIM Limits the rate of change of an output.
VMUX Permits the user to retrieve the value of a variable from a list of variables and modify the
output until it equals the input.
XMTR Provides read/write access to the memory of a TeleTrans Transmitter, or other compatible
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