SIST EN 61158-3-13:2008
Industrial communication networks - Fieldbus specifications - Part 3-13: Data-link layer service definition - Type 13 elements
Industrial communication networks - Fieldbus specifications - Part 3-13: Data-link layer service definition - Type 13 elements
This part of IEC 61158 provides common elements for basic time-critical messaging communications between devices in an automation environment. The term "time-critical" is used to represent the presence of a time-window, within which one or more specified actions are required to be completed with some defined level of certainty. Failure to complete specified actions within the time window risks failure of the applications requesting the actions, with attendant risk to equipment, plant and possibly human life. This standard defines in an abstract way the externally visible service provided by the Type 13 fieldbus data-link layer in terms of a) the primitive actions and events of the service; b) the parameters associated with each primitive action and event, and the form which they take; and c) the interrelationship between these actions and events, and their valid sequences. The purpose of this standard is to define the services provided to the Type 13 fieldbus application layer at the boundary between the application and datalink layers of the fieldbus reference model, and systems management at the boundary between the data-link layer and systems management of the fieldbus reference model.
Industrielle Kommunikationsnetze - Feldbusse - Teil 3-13: Dienstfestlegungen des Data Link Layer (Sicherungsschicht) - Typ 13-Elemente
Réseaux de communication industriels - Spécifications des bus de terrain - Partie 3-13: Définition des services des couches de liaison de données - Eléments de type 13
Industrijska komunikacijska omrežja - Specifikacije za procesna vodila - 3-13. del: Definicija opravil na nivoju podatkovnih povezav - Elementi tipa 13 (IEC 61158-3-13:2007)
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SIST EN 61158-3-13:2008
01-junij-2008
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SIST EN 61158-3:2004
Industrijska komunikacijska omrežja - Specifikacije za procesna vodila - 3-13. del:
Definicija opravil na nivoju podatkovnih povezav - Elementi tipa 13 (IEC 61158-3-
13:2007)
Industrial communication networks - Fieldbus specifications - Part 3-13: Data-link layer
service definition - Type 13 elements
Industrielle Kommunikationsnetze - Feldbusse - Teil 3-13: Dienstfestlegungen des Data
Link Layer (Sicherungsschicht) - Typ 13-Elemente
Réseaux de communication industriels - Spécifications des bus de terrain - Partie 3-13:
Définition des services des couches de liaison de données - Eléments de type 13
Ta slovenski standard je istoveten z: EN 61158-3-13:2008
ICS:
25.040.40 Merjenje in krmiljenje Industrial process
industrijskih postopkov measurement and control
35.100.20 Podatkovni povezovalni sloj Data link layer
35.110 Omreževanje Networking
SIST EN 61158-3-13:2008 en,de
2003-01.Slovenski inštitut za standardizacijo. Razmnoževanje celote ali delov tega standarda ni dovoljeno.
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EUROPEAN STANDARD
EN 61158-3-13
NORME EUROPÉENNE
February 2008
EUROPÄISCHE NORM
ICS 35.100.20; 25.040.40 Partially supersedes EN 61158-3:2004
English version
Industrial communication networks -
Fieldbus specifications -
Part 3-13: Data-link layer service definition -
Type 13 elements
(IEC 61158-3-13:2007)
Réseaux de communication industriels - Industrielle Kommunikationsnetze -
Spécifications des bus de terrain - Feldbusse -
Partie 3-13: Définition des services Teil 3-13: Dienstfestlegungen des
des couches de liaison de données - Data Link Layer (Sicherungsschicht) -
Eléments de type 13 Typ 13-Elemente
(CEI 61158-3-13:2007) (IEC 61158-3-13:2007)
This European Standard was approved by CENELEC on 2008-02-01. CENELEC members are bound to comply
with the CEN/CENELEC Internal Regulations which stipulate the conditions for giving this European Standard
the status of a national standard without any alteration.
Up-to-date lists and bibliographical references concerning such national standards may be obtained on
application to the Central Secretariat or to any CENELEC member.
This European Standard exists in three official versions (English, French, German). A version in any other
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Foreword
The text of document 65C/473/FDIS, future edition 1 of IEC 61158-3-13, prepared by SC 65C, Industrial
networks, of IEC TC 65, Industrial-process measurement, control and automation, was submitted to the
IEC-CENELEC parallel vote and was approved by CENELEC as EN 61158-3-13 on 2008-02-01.
This and the other parts of the EN 61158-3 series supersede EN 61158-3:2004.
With respect to EN 61158-3:2004 the following changes were made:
– deletion of Type 6 fieldbus, and the placeholder for a Type 5 fieldbus data-link layer, for lack of market
relevance;
– addition of new fieldbus types;
– partition into multiple parts numbered 3-1, 3-2, …, 3-19.
The following dates were fixed:
– latest date by which the EN has to be implemented
at national level by publication of an identical
national standard or by endorsement (dop) 2008-11-01
– latest date by which the national standards conflicting
with the EN have to be withdrawn (dow) 2011-02-01
NOTE Use of some of the associated protocol types is restricted by their intellectual-property-right holders. In all cases, the
commitment to limited release of intellectual-property-rights made by the holders of those rights permits a particular data-link layer
protocol type to be used with physical layer and application layer protocols in type combinations as specified explicitly in the
EN 61784 series. Use of the various protocol types in other combinations may require permission from their respective
intellectual-property-right holders.
Annex ZA has been added by CENELEC.
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Endorsement notice
The text of the International Standard IEC 61158-3-13:2007 was approved by CENELEC as a European
Standard without any modification.
In the official version, for Bibliography, the following notes have to be added for the standards indicated:
IEC 61158-4-13 NOTE Harmonized as EN 61158-4-13:2008 (not modified).
IEC 61158-5-13 NOTE Harmonized as EN 61158-5-13:2008 (not modified).
IEC 61158-6-13 NOTE Harmonized as EN 61158-6-13:2008 (not modified).
IEC 61784-2 NOTE Harmonized as EN 61784-2:2008 (not modified).
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Annex ZA
(normative)
Normative references to international publications
with their corresponding European publications
The following referenced documents are indispensable for the application of this document. For dated
references, only the edition cited applies. For undated references, the latest edition of the referenced
document (including any amendments) applies.
NOTE When an international publication has been modified by common modifications, indicated by (mod), the relevant EN/HD
applies.
Publication Year Title EN/HD Year
1) 2)
ISO/IEC 7498-1 - Information technology - Open Systems EN ISO/IEC 7498-1 1995
Interconnection - Basic Reference Model:
The Basic Model
1)
ISO/IEC 7498-3 - Information technology - Open Systems - -
Interconnection - Basic Reference Model:
Naming and addressing
1)
ISO/IEC 10731 - Information technology - Open Systems - -
Interconnection - Basic reference model -
Conventions for the definition of OSI services
1)
Undated reference.
2)
Valid edition at date of issue.
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IEC 61158-3-13
Edition 1.0 2007-12
INTERNATIONAL
STANDARD
Industrial communication networks – Fieldbus specifications –
Part 3-13: Data-link layer service definition – Type 13 elements
INTERNATIONAL
ELECTROTECHNICAL
COMMISSION
PRICE CODE
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ICS 35.100.20; 25.040.40 ISBN 2-8318-9416-6
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CONTENTS
FOREWORD.4
INTRODUCTION.6
1 Scope.7
1.1 Overview .7
1.2 Specifications.7
1.3 Conformance.7
2 Normative references .8
3 Terms, definitions, symbols, abbreviations and conventions .8
3.1 Reference model terms and definitions.8
3.2 Service convention terms and definitions.9
3.3 Data-link service terms and definitions .10
3.4 Symbols and abbreviations.15
3.5 Common conventions .16
3.6 Additional Type 13 conventions .17
4 Data-link service and concept.17
4.1 Overview .17
4.2 Detailed description of isochronous-data services .25
4.3 Detailed description of asynchronous-data service .26
4.4 Detailed description of exception-signaling services .32
4.5 NMT-status services.33
5 Data-link management services (and concepts).35
5.1 General .35
5.2 Facilities of the DLMS .35
5.3 Services of the DL-management.35
5.4 Overview of interactions .36
5.5 Detail specification of service and interactions .37
Bibliography.42
Figure 1 – Relationships of DLSAPs, DLSAP-addresses and group DL-addresses .12
Figure 2 – Type 13 communication architecture .17
Figure 3 – Sequence diagram of isochronous-data service .18
Figure 4 – Sequence diagram of service-data service .19
Figure 5 – Sequence diagram of an unspecified-data transfer service.20
Figure 6 – Sequence diagram of a status-data transfer service .20
Figure 7 – Sequence diagram of an ident-data transfer service.21
Figure 8 – Sequence diagram of an NMT-command transfer service.22
Figure 9 – Sequence diagram of an exception-signaling service .23
Figure 10 – Sequence diagram of a NMT-status transfer service .24
Figure 11 – Reset, Set value and Get value services .36
Figure 12 – Event and Frame status service .37
Table 1 – Type 13 node ID assignment .24
Table 2 – Primitives and parameters used on the isochronous data service .25
Table 3 – Transmit /Receive isochronous-data primitives and the parameters.25
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Table 4 – Primitives and parameters used on service data transfer service.26
Table 5 – Transmit / Receive service-data primitives and the parameters .27
Table 6 – Primitives and parameters used on the unspecified-data service .27
Table 7 – Transmit / receive unspecified-data primitives and the parameters .28
Table 8 – Primitives and parameters used on status-data transfer service .29
Table 9 – Status data primitives and the parameters.29
Table 10 – Primitives and parameters used on ident-data transfer service .30
Table 11 – Ident data primitives and the parameters.30
Table 12 – Primitives and parameters used on the NMT-command service .31
Table 13 – NMT-command primitives and the parameters .31
Table 14 – Primitives and parameters used on the exception-signaling service.32
Table 15 – Exception-signaling initialization primitives and the parameters.32
Table 16 – Exception signaling initialization primitives and the parameters .33
Table 17 – Primitives and parameters used on the NMT-status service.33
Table 18 – NMT-status primitives and the parameters.34
Table 19 – Summary of DL-management primitives and parameters .36
Table 20 – DLM-Reset primitives and parameters .37
Table 21 – DLM-Set-value primitives and parameters .38
Table 22 – DLE-variables and permissible values (from IEC 61158-4-13) .38
Table 23 – DLM-Get-value primitives and parameters .39
Table 25 – Event primitives and parameters .39
Table 26 – Event-related state change variables.40
Table 27 – Frame status primitives and parameters .40
Table 28 – Frame parameters .41
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INTERNATIONAL ELECTROTECHNICAL COMMISSION
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INDUSTRIAL COMMUNICATION NETWORKS –
FIELDBUS SPECIFICATIONS –
Part 3-13: Data-link layer service definition – Type 13 elements
FOREWORD
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NOTE Use of some of the associated protocol types is restricted by their intellectual-property-right holders. In all
cases, the commitment to limited release of intellectual-property-rights made by the holders of those rights permits
a particular data-link layer protocol type to be used with physical layer and application layer protocols in type
combinations as specified explicitly in the IEC 61784 series. Use of the various protocol types in other
combinations may require permission of their respective intellectual-property-right holders.
International Standard IEC 61158-3-13 has been prepared by subcommittee 65C: Industrial
networks, of IEC technical committee 65: Industrial-process measurement, control and
automation.
This first edition and its companion parts of the IEC 61158-3 subseries cancel and replace
IEC 61158-3:2003. This edition of this part constitutes a technical addition. This part and its
Type 13 companion parts also replace IEC/PAS 62408, published in 2005.
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This edition includes the following significant technical changes with respect to the previous
edition:
a) deletion of the former Type 6 fieldbus, and the placeholder for a Type 5 fieldbus data-link
layer, for lack of market relevance;
b) addition of new types of fieldbuses;
c) division of this part into multiple parts numbered 3-1, 3-2, …, 3-19.
The text of this standard is based on the following documents:
FDIS Report on voting
65C/473/FDIS 65C/484/RVD
Full information on the voting for the approval of this standard can be found in the report on
voting indicated in the above table.
This publication has been drafted in accordance with ISO/IEC Directives, Part 2.
The committee has decided that the contents of this publication will remain unchanged until
the maintenance result date indicated on the IEC web site under http://webstore.iec.ch in the
data related to the specific publication. At this date, the publication will be:
• reconfirmed;
• withdrawn;
• replaced by a revised edition, or
• amended.
NOTE The revision of this standard will be synchronized with the other parts of the IEC 61158 series.
The list of all the parts of the IEC 61158 series, under the general title Industrial
communication networks – Fieldbus specifications, can be found on the IEC web site.
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INTRODUCTION
This part of IEC 61158 is one of a series produced to facilitate the interconnection of
automation system components. It is related to other standards in the set as defined by the
“three-layer” fieldbus reference model described in IEC/TR 61158-1.
Throughout the set of fieldbus standards, the term “service” refers to the abstract capability
provided by one layer of the OSI Basic Reference Model to the layer immediately above.
Thus, the data-link layer service defined in this standard is a conceptual architectural service,
independent of administrative and implementation divisions.
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Part 3-13: Data-link layer service definition – Type 13 elements
1 Scope
1.1 Overview
This part of IEC 61158 provides common elements for basic time-critical messaging
communications between devices in an automation environment. The term “time-critical” is
used to represent the presence of a time-window, within which one or more specified actions
are required to be completed with some defined level of certainty. Failure to complete
specified actions within the time window risks failure of the applications requesting the
actions, with attendant risk to equipment, plant and possibly human life.
This standard defines in an abstract way the externally visible service provided by the
Type 13 fieldbus data-link layer in terms of
a) the primitive actions and events of the service;
b) the parameters associated with each primitive action and event, and the form which they
take; and
c) the interrelationship between these actions and events, and their valid sequences.
The purpose of this standard is to define the services provided to
• the Type 13 fieldbus application layer at the boundary between the application and data-
link layers of the fieldbus reference model, and
• systems management at the boundary between the data-link layer and systems
management of the fieldbus reference model.
1.2 Specifications
The principal objective of this standard is to specify the characteristics of conceptual data-link
layer services suitable for time-critical communications, and thus supplement the OSI Basic
Reference Model in guiding the development of data-link protocols for time-critical
communications. A secondary objective is to provide migration paths from previously-existing
industrial communications protocols.
This specification may be used as the basis for formal DL-Programming-Interfaces.
Nevertheless, it is not a formal programming interface, and any such interface will need to
address implementation issues not covered by this specification, including
a) the sizes and octet ordering of various multi-octet service parameters, and
b) the correlation of paired request and confirm, or indication and response, primitives.
1.3 Conformance
This standard does not specify individual implementations or products, nor do they constrain
the implementations of data-link entities within industrial automation systems.
There is no conformance of equipment to this data-link layer service definition standard.
Instead, conformance is achieved through implementation of the corresponding data-link
protocol that fulfills the Type 13 data-link layer services defined in this standard.
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2 Normative references
The following referenced documents are indispensable for the application of this document.
For dated references, only the edition cited applies. For undated references, the latest edition
of the referenced document (including any amendments) applies.
ISO/IEC 7498-1, Information technology – Open Systems Interconnection – Basic Reference
Model — Basic Reference Model: The Basic Model
ISO/IEC 7498-3, Information technology – Open Systems Interconnection – Basic Reference
Model — Basic Reference Model: Naming and addressing
ISO/IEC 10731, Information technology – Open Systems Interconnection – Basic Reference
Model – Conventions for the definition of OSI services
3 Terms, definitions, symbols, abbreviations and conventions
For the purposes of this document, the following terms, definitions, symbols, abbreviations
and conventions apply.
3.1 Reference model terms and definitions
This standard is based in part on the concepts developed in ISO/IEC 7498-1 and
ISO/IEC 7498-3, and makes use of the following terms defined therein:
3.1.1 DL-address [7498-3]
3.1.2 DL-address-mapping [7498-1]
3.1.3 called-DL-address [7498-3]
3.1.4 calling-DL-address [7498-3]
3.1.5 centralized multi-end-point-connection [7498-1]
3.1.6 DL-connection
[7498-1]
3.1.7 DL-connection-end-point [7498-1]
3.1.8 DL-connection-end-point-identifier [7498-1]
3.1.9 DL-connection-mode transmission [7498-1]
3.1.10 DL-connectionless-mode transmission [7498-1]
3.1.11 correspondent (N)-entities [7498-1]
correspondent DL-entities (N=2)
correspondent Ph-entities (N=1)
3.1.12 DL-duplex-transmission [7498-1]
3.1.13 (N)-entity [7498-1]
DL-entity (N=2)
Ph-entity (N=1)
3.1.14 DL-facility [7498-1]
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3.1.15 flow control [7498-1]
3.1.16 (N)-layer [7498-1]
DL-layer (N=2)
Ph-layer (N=1)
3.1.17 layer-management [7498-1]
3.1.18 DL-local-view [7498-3]
3.1.19 DL-name [7498-3]
3.1.20 naming-(addressing)-domain [7498-3]
3.1.21 peer-entities [7498-1]
3.1.22 primitive name [7498-3]
3.1.23 DL-protocol [7498-1]
3.1.24 DL-protocol-connection-identifier [7498-1]
3.1.25 DL-protocol-data-unit [7498-1]
3.1.26 DL-relay [7498-1]
3.1.27 reset [7498-1]
3.1.28 responding-DL-address [7498-3]
3.1.29 routing [7498-1]
3.1.30 segmenting [7498-1]
3.1.31 (N)-service [7498-1]
DL-service (N=2)
Ph-service (N=1)
3.1.32 (N)-service-access-point [7498-1]
DL-service-access-point (N=2)
Ph-service-access-point (N=1)
3.1.33 DL-service-access-point-address [7498-3]
3.1.34 DL-service-connection-identifier [7498-1]
3.1.35 DL-service-data-unit [7498-1]
3.1.36 DL-simplex-transmission [7498-1]
3.1.37 DL-subsystem [7498-1]
3.1.38 systems-management [7498-1]
3.1.39 DLS-user-data [7498-1]
3.2 Service convention terms and definitions
This standard also makes use of the following terms defined in ISO/IEC 10731 as they apply
to the data-link layer:
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3.2.1 acceptor
3.2.2 asymmetrical service
3.2.3 confirm (primitive);
requestor.deliver (primitive)
3.2.4 deliver (primitive)
3.2.5 DL-confirmed-facility
3.2.6 DL-facility
3.2.7 DL-local-view
3.2.8 DL-mandatory-facility
3.2.9 DL-non-confirmed-facility
3.2.10 DL-provider-initiated-facility
3.2.11 DL-provider-optional-facility
3.2.12 DL-service-primitive;
primitive
3.2.13 DL-service-provider
3.2.14 DL-service-user
3.2.15 DLS-user-optional-facility
3.2.16 indication (primitive);
acceptor.deliver (primitive)
3.2.17 multi-peer
3.2.18 request (primitive);
requestor.submit (primitive)
3.2.19 requestor
3.2.20 response (primitive);
acceptor.submit (primitive)
3.2.21 submit (primitive)
3.2.22 symmetrical service
3.3 Data-link service terms and definitions
3.3.1
application process
application layer task
3.3.2
async-only CN
CN that is accessed only by polling
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3.3.3
asynchronous period
second part of the Type 13 cycle, starting with a start of asynchronous (SoA) frame
3.3.4
basic Ethernet mode
mode that provides legacy Ethernet communication
3.3.5
continuous
communication class where isochronous communication takes place every cycle (the opposite
to multiplexed)
3.3.6
controlled node
network node without the ability to manage the SCNM mechanism
3.3.7
cycle time
time between two consecutive start of cyclic (SoC) frames
NOTE The Cycle Time includes the time for data transmission and some idle time before the beginning of the next
cycle.
3.3.8
DLCEP-address
DL-address which designates either
a) one peer DL-connection-end-point, or
b) one multi-peer publisher DL-connection-end-point and implicitly the corresponding set of
subscriber DL-connection-end-points where each DL-connection-end-point exists within a
distinct DLSAP and is associated with a corresponding distinct DLSAP-address
3.3.9
DL-segment, link, local link
single DL-subnetwork in which any of the connected DLEs may communicate directly, without
any intervening DL-relaying, whenever all of those DLEs that are
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