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THE GRID CONNECT COMPARISON CHART

BACKGROUND INFORMATION Fieldbus Name Technology Year Introduced Governing Standard Openness Developer PROFIBUS Siemens DP-1994, PA-1995 EN 50170 / DIN ASICs from Siemens and DP/PA 19245 part 3(DP) /4 Profichip, Products from over (PA), IEC 1158-2 300 vendors (PA) INTERBUS-S Phoenix 1984 DIN 19258 Products from over Contact, EN 50.254 400 manufacturers Interbus Club DeviceNet Allen-Bradley March 1994 ISO 11898 &11519 17 chip vendors, 300+ product vendors, Open specification ARCNET Datapoint 1977 ANSI/ATA 878.1 Chips, boards, ANSI docs AS-I AS-I Fall 1993 Submitted to IEC AS-II.C. Market item Consortium Foundation Fieldbus 1995 ISA SP50/IEC 61158 Chips/software/products from Fieldbus H1 Foundation multiple vendors Foundation In development - lab IEEE 802.3u Multitude of suppliers for Fieldbus High Fieldbus test phase, Prelim RFC for IP, TCP & components, Speed Ethernet Foundation spec available to UDP Extremely low cost (HSE) members IEC/ISA SP50 ISA & Fieldbus 1992 - 1996 IEC 1158/ANSI 850 Multiple chip vendors Fieldbus F. Seriplex APC, Inc. 1990 Seriplex spec Chips available multiple interfaces WorldFIP WorldFIP 1988 IEC 1158-2 Multiple chip vendors LonWorks Echelon Corp. March 1991 Public documentation on protocol SDS Honeywell Jan., 1994 Honeywell 17 chip vendors, Specification, 100+ products Submitted to IEC, ISO11989 ControlNet Open Specification, 2 Chip ControlNet Allen-Bradley 1996 International Vendors CAN In 17 chip vendors, 300 product CANopen 1995 CiA Automation vendors, Open specification DEC, Intel, IEEE 802.3, DIX v. Multitudes of Chips and Ethernet 1976 Xerox 2.0 Products Proprietary, requires Modbus Plus Modicon license/ASICs Modbus EN 1434-3 (layer 7) Open specification, no special Modicon RTU/ASCII IEC 870-5 (layer 2) hardware required Remote I/O Allen-Bradley 1980 Proprietary Data Highway Allen-Bradley Proprietary Plus (DH+)

PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS Fieldbus Network Topology Physical Media Max. Devices (nodes) Max. Distance Name PROFIBUS Line, star & ring Twisted-pair or 127 nodes 100m between segments @ DP/PA fiber (124 slaves - 4 seg, 3 12Mbaud; 24 Km (fiber) rptrs) + 3 masters (baudrate and media dependent) INTERBUS-S Segmented with "T" Twisted-pair, 256 nodes 400 m/segment, 12.8 Km total drops fiber, and slip- ring DeviceNet Trunkline/dropline with Twisted-pair for 64 nodes 500m (baudrate dependent) branching signal & power 6Km w/ repeaters ARCNET Star, , distributed Coax, Twisted- 255 nodes Coax 2000 feet; star pair, Fiber 400 feet; Fiber 6000 Feet AS-I Bus, ring, tree star, of Two wire cable 31 slaves 100 meters, 300 with repeater al Foundation Star or bus Twisted-pair, 240/segment, 65,000 1900m @ 31.25K wire Fieldbus H1 fiber segments 100m @ 100Mbaud twisted- Foundation Twisted-pair, IP addressing - pair Star Fieldbus HSE fiber essentially unlimited 2000m @ 100Mbaud fiber full duplex IEC/ISA SP50 Star or bus Twisted-pair IS 3-7 1700m @ 31.25K Fieldbus fiber, and radio non IS 128 500M @ 5Mbps Seriplex Tree, loop, ring, multi- 4-wire shielded 500+ devices 500+ ft drop, star cable WorldFIP Bus Twisted-pair, 256 nodes up to 40 Km fiber LonWorks Bus, ring, loop, star Twisted-pair, 32,000/domain 2000m @ 78 kbps fiber, power line SDS Trunkline/Dropline Twisted-pair for 64 nodes, 500m (baudrate dependent) signal & power 126 addresses 1000m (coax) 2 nodes Linear, Tree, Star, or 250m with 48 nodes ControlNet Coax, fiber 99 nodes Combination Thereof 3km fiber; 30km fiber w/ repeaters Twisted Pair + 25-1000m (baudrate CANopen Trunkline/Dropline optional Signal & 127 Nodes dependent) Power Thin: 185m 10 Base T (Twisted Pair): Max 100m long (90 metres horizontal cable, 5m drops, Thin Coax, 1m patch) 1024 nodes, Industrial Twisted Pair, Max 4 hubs/repeaters between Bus, Star, Daisy-Chain expandable to more Ethernet Fiber; Thick nodes via Routers Coax (rare) 4Km distancs w/o routers Fiber: 100 Base FX 400m 2.5 Km multi mode w/o Switches; 50 Km mono mode w/ Switches 32 nodes per Modbus Plus Linear Twisted Pair 500m per segment segment, 64 max Modbus Line, star, tree 250 nodes per Twisted Pair 350m RTU/ASCII Network w/ segments segment Remote I/O Linear Trunk Twinaxial 32 nodes/segment 6 km DH+ Linear Trunk Twinaxial 64 nodes/segment 3 km

TRANSPORT MECHANISM Fieldbus Communication Transmission Data Transfer Arbitration Error Diagnostics Name Methods Properties Size Method Checking PROFIBUS Master/slave DP: 9.6, 19.2, 0-244 bytes Token HD4 CRC Station, module & DP/PA peer to peer 93.75, 187.5, passing channel 500 Kbps, diagnostics 1.5, 3, 6, 12 Mbps PA: 31.25 kbps INTERBUS- Master/slave with 500kBits/s, 1-64 Bytes None 16-bit CRC Segment location S total frame transfer full duplex data of CRC error and 246 Bytes cable break Parameter 512 bytes h.s., unlimited block DeviceNet Master/slave, multi- 500 kbps, 8-byte Carrier- CRC check Bus monitoring master, peer to peer 250 kbps, variable Sense 125 kbps message with Multiple fragmentation Access w/ for larger Non- packets Destructive Bitwise Arbitration ARCNET Peer to peer 19.53K to 0 to 507 bytes Token 16-bit CRC Built in 10M passing Acknowledgements at Datalink layer AS-I Master/slave with Data and 31 slaves Master/slave Manchester Slave fault, device cyclic polling power, EMI with 4 in and with cyclic Code, fault resistant 4 out polling hamming-2 Foundation Client/server 31.25 kbps 128 octets Scheduler, 16-bit CRC Remote Fieldbus publisher/ multiple diagnostics, H1 subscriber, Event backup network monitors, notification parameter status Foundation Client/Server, Varies, Uses Fieldbus Publisher/Subscriber, 100Mbps Standard CSMA/CD CRC HSE Event Notification TCP/IP IEC/ISA Client/server 31.25 kbps 64 octets Scheduler, 16-bit CRC Configurable on SP50 Publisher/ subscriber IS+1, 2.6, 5 high & 256 tokens, or network Fieldbus Mbps low priority master management Seriplex Master/slave 200 Mbps 7680/transfer Sonal End of Cabling problems peer to peer multiplexing frame & echo check WorldFIP Peer to peer 31.25 kbps, 1 No limit, Central 16-bit CRC, Device message & 2.5 Mbps, 6 variables 128 arbitration data time-out, redundant Mbps fiber bytes "freshness" cabling indicator LonWorks Master/slave 1.25 Mbs full 228 bytes Carrier 16-bit CRC Database of CRC peer to peer duplex Sense, errors and device Multiple errors Access SDS Master/slave, 1Mbps, 8-byte Carrier- CRC check Bus monitoring peer to peer, 500 kbps, variable Sense multi-cast, 250 kbps, message Multiple multi-master 125 kbps Access w/ Non- Destructive Bitwise Arbitration CTDMA Modified Duplicate Node ID, Producer/Consumer, 0-510 bytes Time Slice CCITT with ControlNet 5 Mbps Device, Slave Device Object Model variable Multiple 16-bit Faults Access Polynomial Carrier- Sense 10K, 20K, Multiple Master/slave, peer to 8-byte Error Control & 50K, 125K, Access w/ CANopen peer, multi-cast, variable 15 Bit CRC Emergency 250K, 500K, Non- multi-master message Messages 800K, 1Mbps Destructive Bitwise Arbitration Industrial Peer to Peer 10, 100Mbps 46-1500 CSMA/CD CRC 32 Ethernet Bytes Modbus Peer to Peer 1Mbps variable Plus Modbus 300 bps - Master/Slave 0-254 Bytes RTU/ASCII 38.4Kbps 57.6 - 230 Remote I/O Master/Slave 128 Bytes CRC 16 none kbps Multi-Master, DH+ 57.6 kbps 180 Bytes none Peer<>Peer

PERFORMANCE Fieldbus Name Cycle Time: 256 Discrete Cycle Time: 128 Analog Block transfer of 128 16 nodes with 16 I/Os 16 nodes with 8 I/Os bytes 1 node PROFIBUS DP/PA Configuration dependent Configuration dependent not available typ <2ms typ <2ms INTERBUS-S 1.8 ms 7.4 ms 140 ms DeviceNet 2.0 ms Master-slave polling 10 ms Master-slave 4.2 ms polling ARCNET Application Layer Dependent Application Layer Application Layer Dependent Dependent AS-I 4.7 ms not possible not possible Foundation Fieldbus <100 ms typical <600 ms typical 36 ms @ 31.25k H1 Foundation Fieldbus Not Applicable; Latency Not Applicable; Latency <5ms <1ms HSE <5ms IEC/ISA SP50 Configuration dependent Configuration dependent 0.2 ms @ 5 Mbps 1.0 ms @ 1 Mbps Seriplex 1.32 ms @ 200 kbps, m/s 10.4 ms 10.4 ms WorldFIP 2 ms @ 1 Mbps 5 ms @ 1 Mbps 5 ms @ 1 Mbps LonWorks 20 ms 5 ms @ 1 Mbps 5 ms @ 1 Mbps SDS <1 ms, event driven 5 ms polling @ 1 Mbps 2 ms @ 1 Mbps ControlNet <0.5 ms <0.5 ms <0.5 ms CANopen <1 ms 5 ms polling @ 1 Mbps <2.5 ms Application Layer Application Layer Industrial Ethernet Application Layer Dependent Dependent Dependent Modbus Plus Modbus RTU/ASCII 12msec @230, 40 msec @57.6 bus Remote I/O cycle time DH+