Industrial communication networks - Fieldbus specifications - Part 6-11: Application layer protocol specification - Type 11 elements

The fieldbus Application Layer (FAL) provides user programs with a means to access the fieldbus communication environment. In this respect, the FAL can be viewed as a "window between corresponding application programs." This standard provides common elements for basic time-critical and non-time-critical messaging communications between application programs in an automation environment and material specific to Type 11 fieldbus. 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 behavior provided by the different Types of the fieldbus Application Layer in terms of a) the abstract syntax defining the application layer protocol data units conveyed between communicating application entities, b) the transfer syntax defining the application layer protocol data units conveyed between communicating application entities, c) the application context state machine defining the application service behavior visible between communicating application entities; and d) the application relationship state machines defining the communication behavior visible between communicating application entities; and. The purpose of this standard is to define the protocol provided to 1) define the wire-representation of the service primitives defined in IEC 61158-5-11, and 2) define the externally visible behavior associated with their transfer. This standard specify the protocol of the IEC fieldbus Application Layer, in conformance with the OSI Basic Reference Model (ISO/IEC 7498) and the OSI Application Layer Structure (ISO/IEC 9545). FAL services and protocols are provided by FAL application-entities (AE) contained within the application processes. The FAL AE is composed of a set of object-oriented Application Service Elements (ASEs) and a Layer Management Entity (LME) that manages the AE. The ASEs provide communication services that operate on a set of related application process object (APO) classes. One of the FAL ASEs is a management ASE that provides a common set of services for the management of the instances of FAL classes. Although these services specify, from the perspective of applications, how request and responses are issued and delivered, they do not include a specification of what the requesting and responding applications are to do with them. That is, the behavioral aspects of the applications are not specified; only a definition of what requests and responses they can send/receive is specified. This permits greater flexibility to the FAL users in standardizing such object behavior. In addition to these services, some supporting services are also defined in this sta ndard to provide access to the FAL to control certain aspects of its operation.

Industrielle Kommunikationsnetze - Feldbusse - Teil 6-11: Protokollspezifikation des Application Layer (Anwendungsschicht) - Typ 11-Elemente

Réseaux de communication industriels - Spécifications des bus de terrain - Partie 6-11: Spécification des services des couches d'application - Eléments de type 11

La CEI 61158-6-11:2007 décrit la couche d'application de bus de terrain (FAL, "Fieldbus Application Layer") qui fournit aux programmes utilisateur un moyen d'accès à l'environnement de communication des bus de terrain. À cet égard, la FAL peut être considérée comme une "fenêtre entre les programmes d'application correspondants". Elle spécifie le protocole de la couche application de bus de terrain de Type 11, conformément au modèle de référence de base OSI (ISO/CEI 7498) et à la structure de la couche application OSI (ISO/CEI 9545). Cette première édition et ses parties d'accompagnement de la série CEI 61158-6 annulent et remplacent la CEI 61158-6:2003. La présente partie et les parties de Type 11 associées annulent et remplacent également la CEI/PAS 62406 publiée en 2005. Elle inclut les modifications suivantes:
- suppression de l'ancien bus de terrain de Type 6 du fait d'un manque de pertinence pour le marché;
- addition de nouveaux types de bus de terrain;
- répartition de la partie 6 de la troisième édition en plusieurs parties numérotées -6 2, -6 3,.... La présente version bilingue (2013-09) correspond à la version anglaise monolingue publiée en 2007-12.

Industrijska komunikacijska omrežja - Specifikacije za procesno vodilo - 6-11. del: Specifikacija protokola na aplikacijskem nivoju - Elementi tipa 11 (IEC 61158-6-11:2007)

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SIST EN 61158-6:2004
Industrijska komunikacijska omrežja - Specifikacije za procesno vodilo - 6-11. del:
Specifikacija protokola na aplikacijskem nivoju - Elementi tipa 11 (IEC 61158-6-
11:2007)
Industrial communication networks - Fieldbus specifications - Part 6-11: Application layer
protocol specification - Type 11 elements
Industrielle Kommunikationsnetze - Feldbusse - Teil 6-11: Protokollspezifikation des
Application Layer (Anwendungsschicht) - Typ 11-Elemente
Réseaux de communication industriels - Spécifications des bus de terrain - Partie 6-11:
Spécification des services des couches d'application - Eléments de type 11
Ta slovenski standard je istoveten z: EN 61158-6-11:2008
ICS:
25.040.40 Merjenje in krmiljenje Industrial process
industrijskih postopkov measurement and control
35.100.70 Uporabniški sloj Application layer
35.110 Omreževanje Networking
SIST EN 61158-6-11:2008 en,de
2003-01.Slovenski inštitut za standardizacijo. Razmnoževanje celote ali delov tega standarda ni dovoljeno.

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EUROPEAN STANDARD
EN 61158-6-11

NORME EUROPÉENNE
March 2008
EUROPÄISCHE NORM

ICS 35.100.70; 25.040.40 Partially supersedes EN 61158-6:2004


English version


Industrial communication networks -
Fieldbus specifications -
Part 6-11: Application layer protocol specification -
Type 11 elements
(IEC 61158-6-11:2007)


Réseaux de communication industriels -  Industrielle Kommunikationsnetze -
Spécifications des bus de terrain - Feldbusse -
Partie 6-11: Spécification des services Teil 6-11: Protokollspezifikation
des couches d'application - des Application Layer
Eléments de type 11 (Anwendungsschicht) -
(CEI 61158-6-11:2007) Typ 11-Elemente
(IEC 61158-6-11:2007)




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Foreword
The text of document 65C/476/FDIS, future edition 1 of IEC 61158-6-11, 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 61158-6-11 on 2008-02-01.
This and the other parts of the EN 61158-6 series supersede EN 61158-6:2004.
With respect to EN 61158-6:2004 the following changes were made:
– deletion of Type 6 fieldbus for lack of market relevance;
– addition of new fieldbus types;
– partition into multiple parts numbered 6-2, 6-3, …6-20.
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.
IEC and CENELEC draw attention to the fact that it is claimed that compliance with this standard may involve the use of patents as
follows, where the [xx] notation indicates the holder of the patent right:
TOSHIBA has the patent applications listed below:
– US Publication Number 6711131 and its counterpart patents in other countries
– US Publication Number 5414813 and its counterpart patents in other countries
– US Publication Number 4930121 and its counterpart patents in other countries
IEC and CENELEC take no position concerning the evidence, validity and scope of these patent rights.
The holder of these patent rights has assured IEC that he is willing to negotiate licences under reasonable and non-discriminatory
terms and conditions with applicants throughout the world. In this respect, the statements of the holder of these patent rights are
registered with IEC. Information may be obtained from:
Toshiba Corporation
1-1, Shibaura 1-Chome
Minato-ku Tokyo 105-8001, Japan
Attention is drawn to the possibility that some of the elements of this standard may be the subject of patent rights other than those
identified above. IEC and CENELEC shall not be held responsible for identifying any or all such patent rights.
Annex ZA has been added by CENELEC.
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Endorsement notice
The text of the International Standard IEC 61158-6-11:2007 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 61131-3 NOTE  Harmonized as EN 61131-3:2003 (not modified).
IEC 61158-4-11 NOTE  Harmonized as EN 61158-4-11:2008 (not modified).
ISO/IEC 9506-2 NOTE  Harmonized as EN 29506-2:1993 (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)
IEC 60559 - Binary floating-point arithmetic for HD 592 S1 1991
microprocessor systems


1) 2)
IEC 61158-3-11 - Industrial communication networks - EN 61158-3-11 2008
Fieldbus specifications -
Part 3-11: Data-link layer service definition -
Type 11 elements


1) 2)
IEC 61158-5-11 - Industrial communication networks - EN 61158-5-11 2008
Fieldbus specifications -
Part 5-11: Application layer service definition -
Type 11 elements


1) 2)
IEC 61784-2 - Industrial communication networks - Profiles - EN 61784-2 2008
Part 2: Additional fieldbus profiles for real-time
networks based on ISO/IEC 8802-3


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 8822 - Information technology - Open Systems - -
Interconnection - Presentation service
definition


1)
ISO/IEC 8824-2 - Information technology - Abstract Syntax - -
Notation One (ASN.1): Information object
specification


1)
ISO/IEC 8825-1 - Information technology - ASN.1 encoding - -
rules: Specification of Basic Encoding Rules
(BER), Canonical Encoding Rules (CER) and
Distinguished Encoding Rules (DER)


1)
ISO/IEC 9545 - Information technology - Open Systems - -
Interconnection - Application Layer structure



1)
Undated reference.
2)
Valid edition at date of issue.

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IEC 61158-6-11
Edition 1.0 2007-12
INTERNATIONAL
STANDARD

Industrial communication networks – Fieldbus specifications –
Part 6-11: Application layer protocol specification – Type 11 elements

INTERNATIONAL
ELECTROTECHNICAL
COMMISSION
PRICE CODE
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ICS 35.100.70; 25.040.40 ISBN 2-8318-9486-7

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CONTENTS
FOREWORD.4
INTRODUCTION.6
1 Scope.7
1.1 General .7
1.2 Specifications.8
1.3 Conformance.8
2 Normative references .8
3 Terms, definitions, symbols, abbreviations and conventions .9
3.1 Introduction .9
3.2 Terms and definitions from other ISO/IEC standards .9
3.3 Terms and definitions from IEC/TR 61158-1 .10
3.4 Other terms and definitions .10
3.5 Abbreviations and symbols.11
3.6 Conventions .12
4 FAL syntax description .13
4.1 Concept .13
4.2 General .14
4.3 FAL-AR PDU abstract syntax .14
4.4 Abstract syntax of PDU body.15
4.5 Data type .15
5 Transfer syntax .15
5.1 Overview and FAL header .15
5.2 Encoding rule .16
5.3 Encoding of structured types .18
6 FAL protocol state machines structures .18
6.1 Overview .18
7 FAL service protocol machine (FSPM).19
7.1 General .19
7.2 Primitives definitions .19
7.3 FSPM state tables .20
8 Application relationship protocol machine (ARPM).21
8.1 General .21
8.2 Primitive definitions .21
8.3 DLL mapping of BNU-PEC AREP class .22
8.4 BNU-PEC ARPM states machine.23
9 DLL mapping protocol machine (DMPM).25
9.1 Overview .25
9.2 Primitive definitions .26
9.3 DLL mapping protocol machine (DMPM).27
9.4 Data-link layer service selection .30
Bibliography.31

Figure 1 – RTE-TCnet communication profile.14
Figure 2 – APDU overview .16
Figure 3 – Relationship between FSPM, ARPM, DMPM and external physical CM .19

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Figure 4 – State transition diagram of FSPM.20
Figure 5 – State transition diagram of the BNU-PEC .23
Figure 6 – State transition diagram of DMPM.27

Table 1 – Conventions used for state machines .12
Table 2 – FAL header .16
Table 3 – Primitives issued by FAL user to FSPM .20
Table 4 – Primitives issued by FSPM to FAL user .20
Table 5 – FSPM state table – sender transactions .20
Table 6 – FSPM state table – receiver transactions .21
Table 7 – Function SelectArep .21
Table 8 – Primitives issued by FSPM to ARPM .22
Table 9 – Primitives issued by ARPM to FSPM .22
Table 10 – Parameters used with primitives exchanged between FSPM and ARPM .22
Table 11 – BNU-PEC state descriptions.23
Table 12 – BNU-PEC ARPM state table – sender transactions.24
Table 13 – BNU-PEC ARPM state table – receiver transactions.24
Table 14 – Function GetArepId ().25
Table 15 – Function BuildFAL-PDU.25
Table 16 – Function FAL_Pdu_Type .25
Table 17 – Primitives issued by ARPM to DMPM .26
Table 18 – Primitives issued by DMPM to ARPM .26
Table 19 – Parameters used with primitives exchanged between ARPM and DMPM .26
Table 20 – Primitives exchanged between data-link layer and DMPM .27
Table 21 – DMPM state descriptions.27
Table 22 – DMPM state table – sender transactions .28
Table 23 – DMPM state table – receiver transactions.29
Table 24 – Function PickArep .29
Table 25 – Function FindAREP .29

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INTERNATIONAL ELECTROTECHNICAL COMMISSION
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INDUSTRIAL COMMUNICATION NETWORKS –
FIELDBUS SPECIFICATIONS –

Part 6-11: Application layer protocol specification – Type 11 elements


FOREWORD
1) The International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) is a worldwide organization for standardization comprising
all national electrotechnical committees (IEC National Committees). The object of IEC is to promote
international co-operation on all questions concerning standardization in the electrical and electronic fields. To
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6) All users should ensure that they have the latest edition of this publication.
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8) Attention is drawn to the Normative references cited in this publication. Use of the referenced publications is
indispensable for the correct application of this publication.
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 from their respective intellectual-property-right holders.
The International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) draws attention to the fact that it is claimed that compliance
with this standard may involve the use of patents concerning as follows:
TOSHIBA has the patent applications listed below:
– US Publication Number 6711131 and its counterpart patents in other countries
– US Publication Number 5414813 and its counterpart patents in other countries
– US Publication Number 4930121 and its counterpart patents in other countries
IEC takes no position concerning the evidence, validity and scope of this patent right.
The holder of this patent right has assured the IEC that he is willing to negotiate licences under reasonable and
non-discriminatory terms and conditions with applicants throughout the world. In this respect, the statement of the
holder of this patent right is registered with IEC. Information may be obtained from:

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Toshiba Corporation
1-1, Shibaura 1-Chome
Minato-ku Tokyo 105-8001, Japan
Attention is drawn to the possibility that some of the elements of this International Standard may be the subject of
patent rights other than those identified above. IEC shall not be held responsible for identifying any or all such
patent rights.
International standard IEC 61158-6-11 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 61158-6 subseries cancel and replace
IEC 61158-6:2003. This edition of this part constitutes a technical addition. This part and its
Type 11 companion parts also cancel and replace IEC/PAS 62406, published in 2005.
The text of this standard is based on the following documents:
FDIS Report on voting
65C/476/FDIS 65C/487/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 edition of IEC 61158-6 includes the following significant changes from the previous
edition:
a) deletion of the former Type 6 fieldbus for lack of market relevance;
b) addition of new types of fieldbuses;
c) partition of part 6 of the third edition into multiple parts numbered -6-2, -6-3, …
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.
The application protocol provides the application service by making use of the services
available from the data-link or other immediately lower layer. The primary aim of this standard
is to provide a set of rules for communication expressed in terms of the procedures to be
carried out by peer application entities (AEs) at the time of communication. These rules for
communication are intended to provide a sound basis for development in order to serve a
variety of purposes:
• as a guide for implementors and designers;
• for use in the testing and procurement of equipment;
• as part of an agreement for the admittance of systems into the open systems environment;
• as a refinement to the understanding of time-critical communications within OSI.
This standard is concerned, in particular, with the communication and interworking of sensors,
effectors and other automation devices. By using this standard together with other standards
positioned within the OSI or fieldbus reference models, otherwise incompatible systems may
work together in any combination.

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INDUSTRIAL COMMUNICATION NETWORKS –
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Part 6-11: Application layer protocol specification – Type 11 elements


1 Scope
1.1 General
The fieldbus Application Layer (FAL) provides user programs with a means to access the
fieldbus communication environment. In this respect, the FAL can be viewed as a “window
between corresponding application programs.”
This standard provides common elements for basic time-critical and non-time-critical
messaging communications between application programs in an automation environment and
material specific to Type 11 fieldbus. 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 behavior provided by the
different Types of the fieldbus Application Layer in terms of
a) the abstract syntax defining the application layer protocol data units conveyed between
communicating application entities,
b) the transfer syntax defining the application layer protocol data units conveyed between
communicating application entities,
c) the application context state machine defining the application service behavior visible
between communicating application entities; and
d) the application relationship state machines defining the communication behavior visible
between communicating application entities; and.
The purpose of this standard is to define the protocol provided to
1) define the wire-representation of the service primitives defined in IEC 61158-5-11, and
2) define the externally visible behavior associated with their transfer.
This standard specify the protocol of the IEC fieldbus Application Layer, in conformance with
the OSI Basic Reference Model (ISO/IEC 7498) and the OSI Application Layer Structure
(ISO/IEC 9545).
FAL services and protocols are provided by FAL application-entities (AE) contained within the
application processes. The FAL AE is composed of a set of object-oriented Application
Service Elements (ASEs) and a Layer Management Entity (LME) that manages the AE. The
ASEs provide communication services that operate on a set of related application process
object (APO) classes. One of the FAL ASEs is a management ASE that provides a common
set of services for the management of the instances of FAL classes.
Although these services specify, from the perspective of applications, how request and
responses are issued and delivered, they do not include a specification of what the requesting
and responding applications are to do with them. That is, the behavioral aspects of the
applications are not specified; only a definition of what requests and responses they can
send/receive is specified. This permits greater flexibility to the FAL users in standardizing

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such object behavior. In addition to these services, some supporting services are also defined
in this st
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