SIST EN 61804-3:2016

Function Blocks (FB) for process control and Electronic Device Description Language (EDDL) - Part 3: EDDL syntax and semantics (IEC 61804-3:2015)

This part of IEC 61804 specifies the Electronic Device Description Language (EDDL)
technology, which enables the integration of real product details using the tools of the
engineering life cycle.
This part of IEC 61804 specifies EDDL as a generic language for describing the properties of
automation system components. EDDL is capable of describing
• device parameters and their dependencies;
• device functions, for example, simulation mode, calibration;
• graphical representations, for example, menus;
• interactions with control devices;
• graphical representations:
– enhanced user interface,
– graphing system;
• persistent data store.
EDDL is used to create Electronic Device Description (EDD) for example concrete devices,
common usable profiles or libraries. This EDD is used with appropriate tools to generate an
interpretative code to support parameter handling, operation, and monitoring of automation
system components such as remote I/Os, controllers, sensors, and programmable controllers.
Tool implementation is outside the scope of this standard.
This part of IEC 61804 specifies the semantic and lexical structure in a syntax-independent
manner. A specific syntax is defined in Annex A, but it is possible to use the semantic model
also with different syntaxes.

Funktionsbausteine für die Prozessautomation und elektronische Gerätebeschreibungssprache - Teil 3: Elektronische Gerätebeschreibungssprache (EDDL) (IEC 61804-3:2015)

Blocs Fonctionnels (FB) pour les procédés industriels et le Langage de Description Electronique de Produit (EDDL) - Partie 3: Sémantique et syntaxe EDDL (IEC 61804-3:2015)

L'IEC 61804-3:2015 spécifie la technologie de langage de description électronique de produit (EDDL), qui permet en utilisant les outils d'ingénierie l'intégration des détails du produit réel dans les systèmes tout au long du cycle de vie. Elle spécifie l'EDDL en tant que langage générique pour décrire les propriétés des composants système mettant en oeuvre des automatismes. Cette troisième édition annule et remplace la deuxième édition parue en 2010. Cette édition constitue une révision technique. Cette édition inclut les modifications techniques majeures suivantes par rapport à l'édition précédente: Les Builtins et leurs profils ont été supprimés et déplacés dans la norme IEC 61804-5. Les extensions suivantes sont intégrées à la spécification EDDL pour satisfaire aux exigences FDI:
- nouvelles constructions de BLOB, PLUGIN;
- construction de composant pour les exigences de serveur de communication (attributs supplémentaires);
- extension de l'attribut classe;
- nouveaux attributs PRIVATE, VISIBILITY, WRITE_MODE.

Funkcijski bloki (FB) za nadzor procesov in opisni jezik za elektronske naprave (EDDL) - 3. del: Sintaksa in semantika EDDL (IEC 61804-3:2015)

Ta del standarda IEC 61804 določa tehnologijo opisnega jezika za elektronske naprave (EDDL), ki omogoča integracijo dejanskih podrobnosti izdelka z uporabo orodij življenjskega cikla inženiringa.
Ta del standarda IEC 61804 določa opisni jezik za elektronske naprave kot splošni jezik za opisovanje lastnosti komponent avtomatiziranih sistemov. Opisni jezik za elektronske naprave lahko opisuje:
• parametre naprav in njihove odvisnosti;
• funkcije naprav, npr. način simulacije, umerjanje;
• grafične predstavitve, npr. menije;
• medsebojno vplivanje krmilnih naprav;
• grafične predstavitve:
– izboljšan uporabniški vmesnik,
– grafični sistem;
• obstojno shrambo podatkov.
Opisni jezik za elektronske naprave se uporablja za ustvarjanje opisov za elektronske naprave (EDD), npr. fizične naprave, splošno uporabljane profile ali knjižnice. Ta opis za elektronske naprave se uporablja z ustreznimi orodji za generiranje razlagalne kode za podporo ravnanju s parametri ter upravljanje in nadzor komponent avtomatiziranih sistemov, kot so oddaljeni I/O, krmilniki, senzorji in programirljivi krmilniki. Uvedba orodja ni zajeta v tem standardu. Ta del standarda IEC 61804 določa semantično in leksikalno strukturo na način, ki je neodvisen od sintakse. V dodatku A je opredeljena specifična sintaksa, vendar je semantični model mogoče uporabljati
z različnimi sintaksami.

General Information

• Status: Withdrawn
• Publication Date: 25-Feb-2016
• Withdrawal Date: 30-May-2023
• ICS: 25.040.40 - Industrial process measurement and control
• ICS: 35.060 - Languages used in information technology
• ICS: 35.240.50 - IT applications in industry
• Technical Committee: MOV - Measuring equipment for electromagnetic quantities
• Current Stage: 9900 - Withdrawal (Adopted Project)
• Start Date: 30-May-2023
• Due Date: 22-Jun-2023
• Completion Date: 31-May-2023
• Ref Project: EN 61804-3:2015 - Function Blocks (FB) for process control and Electronic Device Description Language (EDDL) - Part 3: EDDL syntax and semantics

Relations

• Replaced By: SIST EN IEC 61804-3:2020 - Devices and integration in enterprise systems - Function blocks (FB) for process control and electronic device description language (EDDL) - Part 3: EDDL syntax and semantics (IEC 61804-3:2020)
• Effective Date: 01-Sep-2020
• Revised: SIST EN 61804-3:2011 - Function blocks (FB) for process control - Part 3: Electronic Device Description Language (EDDL) (IEC 61804-3:2010)
• Effective Date: 06-May-2014

Standards Content (Sample)

SLOVENSKI STANDARD
SIST EN 61804-3:2016
01-april-2016
Funkcijski bloki (FB) za nadzor procesov in opisni jezik za elektronske naprave
(EDDL) - 3. del: Sintaksa in semantika EDDL (IEC 61804-3:2015)
Function Blocks (FB) for process control and Electronic Device Description Language
(EDDL) - Part 3: EDDL syntax and semantics (IEC 61804-3:2015)
Funktionsbausteine für die Prozessautomation und elektronische
Gerätebeschreibungssprache - Teil 3: Elektronische Gerätebeschreibungssprache
(EDDL) (IEC 61804-3:2015)
Blocs Fonctionnels (FB) pour les procédés industriels et le Langage de Description
Electronique de Produit (EDDL) - Partie 3: Sémantique et syntaxe EDDL (IEC 61804-
3:2015)
Ta slovenski standard je istoveten z: EN 61804-3:2015
ICS:
25.040.40 Merjenje in krmiljenje Industrial process
industrijskih postopkov measurement and control
35.060 Jeziki, ki se uporabljajo v Languages used in
informacijski tehniki in information technology
tehnologiji
35.240.50 Uporabniške rešitve IT v IT applications in industry
industriji
SIST EN 61804-3:2016 en
2003-01.Slovenski inštitut za standardizacijo. Razmnoževanje celote ali delov tega standarda ni dovoljeno.

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EUROPEAN STANDARD EN 61804-3

NORME EUROPÉENNE

EUROPÄISCHE NORM
September 2015
ICS 25.040.40; 35.240.50 Supersedes EN 61804-3:2011
English Version
Function Blocks (FB) for process control and Electronic Device
Description Language (EDDL) - Part 3: EDDL syntax and
semantics
(IEC 61804-3:2015)
Blocs Fonctionnels (FB) pour les procédés industriels et le Funktionsbausteine für die Prozessautomation und
Langage de Description Electronique de Produit (EDDL) - elektronische Gerätebeschreibungssprache - Teil 3:
Partie 3: Sémantique et syntaxe EDDL Elektronische Gerätebeschreibungssprache (EDDL)
(IEC 61804-3:2015) (IEC 61804-3:2015)
This European Standard was approved by CENELEC on 2015-07-14. 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 CEN-CENELEC
Management Centre or to any CENELEC member.
This European Standard exists in three official versions (English, French, German). A version in any other language made by translation
under the responsibility of a CENELEC member into its own language and notified to the CEN-CENELEC Management Centre has the
same status as the official versions.
CENELEC members are the national electrotechnical committees of Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, the Czech Republic,
Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia,
Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland,
Turkey and the United Kingdom.


European Committee for Electrotechnical Standardization
Comité Européen de Normalisation Electrotechnique
Europäisches Komitee für Elektrotechnische Normung
CEN-CENELEC Management Centre: Avenue Marnix 17, B-1000 Brussels
© 2015 CENELEC All rights of exploitation in any form and by any means reserved worldwide for CENELEC Members.
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EN 61804-3:2015
European foreword
The text of document 65E/451/FDIS, future edition 3 of IEC 61804-3, prepared by SC 65E “Devices
and integration in enterprise systems” of IEC/TC 65 “Industrial-process measurement, control and
automation" was submitted to the IEC-CENELEC parallel vote and approved by CENELEC as EN
61804-3:2015.

The following dates are fixed:
• latest date by which the document has to be (dop) 2016-04-14
implemented at national level by
publication of an identical national
standard or by endorsement
(dow) 2018-07-14
• latest date by which the national
standards conflicting with the
document have to be withdrawn

Attention is drawn to the possibility that some of the elements of this document may be the subject of
patent rights. CENELEC [and/or CEN] shall not be held responsible for identifying any or all such
patent rights.
Endorsement notice
The text of the International Standard IEC 61804-3:2015 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.
IEC 61499-1 NOTE Harmonized as EN 61499-1.
IEC 61784-1 NOTE Harmonized as EN 61784-1.
IEC 61784-2 NOTE Harmonized as EN 61784-2.
1)
NOTE Harmonized as EN 61804-4
IEC 61804-4


1) To be published.
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 EN 61804-5:2015

Annex ZA
(normative)
Normative references to international publications
with their corresponding European publications
The following documents, in whole or in part, are normatively referenced in this document and are
indispensable for its application. For dated references, only the edition cited applies. For undated
references, the latest edition of the referenced document (including any amendments) applies.
NOTE 1 When an International Publication has been modified by common modifications, indicated by (mod), the relevant EN/HD

applies.

NOTE 2 Up-to-date information on the latest versions of the European Standards listed in this annex is available here:
www.cenelec.eu.
Publication Year Title EN/HD Year

IEC 60050 series International Electrotechnical Vocabulary - series
IEC 61804-2 -  Function blocks (FB) for process control - -
and EDDL - Part 2: Specification of FB
concept
IEC 61804-5 -  Function blocks (FB) for process control - -
and EDDL - Part 5: EDDL Builtin library
IEC 62541-4 -  OPC Unified Architecture - Part 4: Services EN 62541-4 -
ISO 639 series Codes for the representation of names of - series
languages
ISO 3166-1 -  Codes for the representation of names of - -
countries and their subdivisions - Part 1:
Country codes
ISO/IEC 2375 -  Information technology - Procedure for - -
registration of escape sequences and
coded character sets
ISO/IEC 7498-1 -  Information technology - Open Systems - -
Interconnection - Basic Reference Model:
The Basic Model
ISO/IEC 9834-8 -  Information technology - Procedures for - -
the operation of object identifier registration
authorities - Part 8: Generation of
universally unique identifiers (UUIDs) and
their use in object identifiers
ISO/IEC 9899 -  Information technology - Programming - -
languages - C
ISO/IEC 10646-1 -  Information technology - Universal - -
Multiple-Octet Coded Character Set (UCS)
-- Part 1: Architecture and Basic
Multilingual Plane
IEEE 754 -  IEEE Standard for Binary Floating-Point - -
Arithmetic
RFC 3629 -  UTF-8, User Datagram Protocol - -
W3C -  Cascading Style Sheets level 2 - -
Specification


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CONTENTS
FOREWORD . 16
INTRODUCTION . 18
1 Scope . 19
2 Normative references. 19
3 Terms, definitions, abbreviated terms and acronyms . 20
3.1 Terms and definitions . 20
3.2 Abbreviated terms and acronyms . 22
4 Conformance statement . 22
5 Conventions . 23
5.1 General . 23
5.2 Conventions for lexical structure . 23
5.2.1 ABC field1, field2 . 23
5.2.2 ABC field1+ . 24
5.2.3 ABC field2* . 24
5.2.4 ABC [field1, field2]+ . 24
5.2.5 ABC field1, (field2, field3) . 24
6 EDD and EDDL model . 24
6.1 Overview of EDD and EDDL . 24
6.2 EDD architecture . 24
6.3 Concepts of EDD . 24
6.4 Principles of the EDD development process . 25
6.4.1 General . 25
6.4.2 EDD source generation . 25
6.4.3 EDD preprocessing . 26
6.4.4 EDD compilation . 26
6.5 Interrelations between the lexical structure and formal definitions . 26
6.6 Builtins . 26
6.7 Profiles . 26
7 Electronic Device Description Language (EDDL) . 26
7.1 Overview. 26
7.1.1 EDDL features . 26
7.1.2 Syntax representation . 27
7.1.3 EDD language elements . 27
7.1.4 Basic construction elements . 27
7.1.5 Common attributes . 38
7.1.6 Special elements . 38
7.1.7 Rules for instances . 39
7.1.8 Rules for a list of VARIABLEs . 39
7.2 EDD identification information . 39
7.2.1 General structure . 39
7.2.2 Specific attributes . 39
7.3 AXIS . 42
7.3.1 General structure . 42
7.3.2 Specific attributes . 43
7.4 BLOCK . 45
7.4.1 BLOCK_A . 45

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7.4.2 BLOCK_B . 57
7.5 CHART . 59
7.5.1 General structure . 59
7.5.2 Specific attributes . 59
7.6 COLLECTION . 61
7.6.1 General structure . 61
7.6.2 Specific attribute – item-type . 62
7.7 COMMAND . 62
7.7.1 General structure . 62
7.7.2 Specific attributes . 63
7.8 COMPONENT . 69
7.8.1 General structure . 69
7.8.2 Specific attributes . 70
7.9 COMPONENT_FOLDER . 75
7.10 COMPONENT_REFERENCE . 76
7.11 COMPONENT_RELATION . 76
7.11.1 General structure . 76
7.11.2 Specific attributes . 77
7.12 CONNECTION (void) . 80
7.13 DOMAIN (void) . 80
7.14 EDIT_DISPLAY . 80
7.14.1 General structure . 80
7.14.2 Specific attributes . 81
7.15 FILE . 83
7.15.1 General structure . 83
7.15.2 Specific attributes . 83
7.16 GRAPH . 84
7.16.1 General structure . 84
7.16.2 Specific attributes . 85
7.17 GRID . 86
7.17.1 General structure . 86
7.17.2 Specific attributes . 86
7.18 IMAGE . 87
7.18.1 General structure . 87
7.18.2 Specific attributes . 88
7.19 IMPORT . 89
7.19.1 General structure . 89
7.19.2 Redefinitions . 91
7.20 INTERFACE . 107
7.20.1 General structure . 107
7.20.2 Specific attribute – DECLARATION . 107
7.21 LIKE . 108
7.22 LIST . 108
7.22.1 General structure . 108
7.22.2 Specific attributes . 109
7.23 MENU . 110
7.23.1 General structure . 110
7.23.2 Specific attributes . 111
7.23.3 Sequence diagrams for actions. 116

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7.24 METHOD . 118
7.24.1 General structure . 118
7.24.2 Specific attributes . 119
7.25 PROGRAM (void) . 121
7.26 RECORD . 121
7.27 REFERENCE_ARRAY . 122
7.27.1 General structure . 122
7.27.2 Specific attribute – ELEMENTS . 122
7.28 Relations . 123
7.28.1 REFRESH . 123
7.28.2 UNIT . 123
7.28.3 WRITE_AS_ONE . 124
7.29 RESPONSE_CODES . 124
7.30 SOURCE . 125
7.30.1 General structure . 125
7.30.2 Specific attributes . 126
7.31 TEMPLATE . 127
7.31.1 General structure . 127
7.31.2 Specific attribute – DEFAULT_VALUES . 127
7.32 VALUE_ARRAY . 128
7.32.1 General structure . 128
7.32.2 Specific attributes . 128
7.33 VARIABLE . 129
7.33.1 General structure . 129
7.33.2 Specific attributes . 130
7.34 VARIABLE_LIST . 148
7.35 WAVEFORM . 148
7.35.1 General structure . 148
7.35.2 Specific attributes . 149
7.36 Common attributes . 155
7.36.1 CLASSIFICATION . 155
7.36.2 COMPONENT_PARENT . 156
7.36.3 COMPONENT_PATH . 157
7.36.4 DEFINITION . 157
7.36.5 EMPHASIS . 158
7.36.6 HANDLING . 158
7.36.7 HEIGHT . 158
7.36.8 HELP . 159
7.36.9 LABEL . 160
7.36.10 LINE_COLOR . 160
7.36.11 LINE_TYPE . 160
7.36.12 MEMBERS . 161
7.36.13 PROTOCOL . 162
7.36.14 RESPONSE_CODES . 163
7.36.15 SUPPLIED_INTERFACE . 163
7.36.16 VALIDITY. 163
7.36.17 WIDTH . 164
7.36.18 PRIVATE . 164
7.36.19 VISIBILITY . 164

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7.36.20 WRITE_MODE . 165
7.36.21 IDENTITY . 165
7.37 Conditional expression . 166
7.38 Referencing . 167
7.38.1 Referencing an EDD instance . 167
7.38.2 Referencing bits of a BIT_ENUMERATED VARIABLE . 168
7.38.3 Referencing members of a RECORD . 168
7.38.4 Referencing elements of a VALUE_ARRAY . 168
7.38.5 Referencing members of a COLLECTION . 169
7.38.6 Referencing elements of a REFERENCE_ARRAY . 169
7.38.7 Referencing members of a VARIABLE_LISTS . 169
7.38.8 Referencing elements of BLOCK_A PARAMETERS . 170
7.38.9 Referencing elements of BLOCK_A PARAMETER_LISTS . 170
7.38.10 Referencing elements of BLOCK_A LOCAL_PARAMETERS . 170
7.38.11 Referencing BLOCK_A CHARACTERISTICS . 171
7.38.12 Referencing members of a FILE . 171
7.38.13 Referencing elements of a LIST . 171
7.38.14 Referencing members of a CHART . 172
7.38.15 Referencing members of a GRAPH . 172
7.38.16 Referencing members of a SOURCE . 172
7.38.17 Referencing AXIS of a GRAPH, SOURCE, WAVEFORM . 173
7.38.18 Referencing PARAMETERS of specific BLOCK_A instance . 173
7.38.19 Referencing LOCAL_PARAMETERS of specific BLOCK_A instance . 174
7.38.20 Referencing CHARACTERISTICS of specific BLOCK_A instance . 174
7.38.21 Referencing CHARTS of specific BLOCK_A instance . 174
7.38.22 Referencing LISTS of specific BLOCK_A instance . 175
7.38.23 Referencing GRAPHS of specific BLOCK_A instance . 175
7.38.24 Referencing GRIDS of specific BLOCK_A instance . 176
7.38.25 Referencing MENUS of specific BLOCK_A instance . 176
7.38.26 Referencing METHODS of specific BLOCK_A instance . 177
7.38.27 Referencing COMPONENT instances . 177
7.38.28 Referencing COMPONENT types . 178
7.38.29 Referencing FILES of specific BLOCK_A instance . 178
7.38.30 Referencing PLUGINS of specific BLOCK_A instance . 178
7.39 Strings . 179
7.39.1 Specifying a string as a string literal . 179
7.39.2 Specifying a string as a string variable. 179
7.39.3 Specifying a string as an enumeration value . 180
7.39.4 Spe
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SLOVENSKI STANDARD
SIST EN 61804-3:2016
01-april-2016
Funkcijski bloki (FB) za nadzor procesov in opisni jezik za elektronske naprave
(EDDL) - 3. del: Sintaksa in semantika EDDL (IEC 61804-3:2015)
Function Blocks (FB) for process control and Electronic Device Description Language
(EDDL) - Part 3: EDDL syntax and semantics (IEC 61804-3:2015)
Funktionsbausteine für die Prozessautomation und elektronische
Gerätebeschreibungssprache - Teil 3: Elektronische Gerätebeschreibungssprache
(EDDL) (IEC 61804-3:2015)
Blocs Fonctionnels (FB) pour les procédés industriels et le Langage de Description
Electronique de Produit (EDDL) - Partie 3: Sémantique et syntaxe EDDL (IEC 61804-
3:2015)
Ta slovenski standard je istoveten z: EN 61804-3:2015
ICS:
25.040.40 Merjenje in krmiljenje Industrial process
industrijskih postopkov measurement and control
35.240.50 Uporabniške rešitve IT v IT applications in industry
industriji
SIST EN 61804-3:2016 en
2003-01.Slovenski inštitut za standardizacijo. Razmnoževanje celote ali delov tega standarda ni dovoljeno.

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EUROPEAN STANDARD EN 61804-3

NORME EUROPÉENNE

EUROPÄISCHE NORM
September 2015
ICS 25.040.40; 35.240.50 Supersedes EN 61804-3:2011
English Version
Function Blocks (FB) for process control and Electronic Device
Description Language (EDDL) - Part 3: EDDL syntax and
semantics
(IEC 61804-3:2015)
Blocs Fonctionnels (FB) pour les procédés industriels et le Funktionsbausteine für die Prozessautomation und
Langage de Description Electronique de Produit (EDDL) - elektronische Gerätebeschreibungssprache - Teil 3:
Partie 3: Sémantique et syntaxe EDDL Elektronische Gerätebeschreibungssprache (EDDL)
(IEC 61804-3:2015) (IEC 61804-3:2015)
This European Standard was approved by CENELEC on 2015-07-14. 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 CEN-CENELEC
Management Centre or to any CENELEC member.
This European Standard exists in three official versions (English, French, German). A version in any other language made by translation
under the responsibility of a CENELEC member into its own language and notified to the CEN-CENELEC Management Centre has the
same status as the official versions.
CENELEC members are the national electrotechnical committees of Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, the Czech Republic,
Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia,
Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland,
Turkey and the United Kingdom.


European Committee for Electrotechnical Standardization
Comité Européen de Normalisation Electrotechnique
Europäisches Komitee für Elektrotechnische Normung
CEN-CENELEC Management Centre: Avenue Marnix 17, B-1000 Brussels
© 2015 CENELEC All rights of exploitation in any form and by any means reserved worldwide for CENELEC Members.
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EN 61804-3:2015
European foreword
The text of document 65E/451/FDIS, future edition 3 of IEC 61804-3, prepared by SC 65E “Devices
and integration in enterprise systems” of IEC/TC 65 “Industrial-process measurement, control and
automation" was submitted to the IEC-CENELEC parallel vote and approved by CENELEC as EN
61804-3:2015.

The following dates are fixed:
• latest date by which the document has to be (dop) 2016-04-14
implemented at national level by
publication of an identical national
standard or by endorsement
(dow) 2018-07-14
• latest date by which the national
standards conflicting with the
document have to be withdrawn

Attention is drawn to the possibility that some of the elements of this document may be the subject of
patent rights. CENELEC [and/or CEN] shall not be held responsible for identifying any or all such
patent rights.
Endorsement notice
The text of the International Standard IEC 61804-3:2015 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.
IEC 61499-1 NOTE Harmonized as EN 61499-1.
IEC 61784-1 NOTE Harmonized as EN 61784-1.
IEC 61784-2 NOTE Harmonized as EN 61784-2.
1)
NOTE Harmonized as EN 61804-4
IEC 61804-4


1) To be published.
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Annex ZA
(normative)
Normative references to international publications
with their corresponding European publications
The following documents, in whole or in part, are normatively referenced in this document and are
indispensable for its application. For dated references, only the edition cited applies. For undated
references, the latest edition of the referenced document (including any amendments) applies.
NOTE 1 When an International Publication has been modified by common modifications, indicated by (mod), the relevant EN/HD

applies.

NOTE 2 Up-to-date information on the latest versions of the European Standards listed in this annex is available here:
www.cenelec.eu.
Publication Year Title EN/HD Year

IEC 60050 series International Electrotechnical Vocabulary - series
IEC 61804-2 -  Function blocks (FB) for process control - -
and EDDL - Part 2: Specification of FB
concept
IEC 61804-5 -  Function blocks (FB) for process control - -
and EDDL - Part 5: EDDL Builtin library
IEC 62541-4 -  OPC Unified Architecture - Part 4: Services EN 62541-4 -
ISO 639 series Codes for the representation of names of - series
languages
ISO 3166-1 -  Codes for the representation of names of - -
countries and their subdivisions - Part 1:
Country codes
ISO/IEC 2375 -  Information technology - Procedure for - -
registration of escape sequences and
coded character sets
ISO/IEC 7498-1 -  Information technology - Open Systems - -
Interconnection - Basic Reference Model:
The Basic Model
ISO/IEC 9834-8 -  Information technology - Procedures for - -
the operation of object identifier registration
authorities - Part 8: Generation of
universally unique identifiers (UUIDs) and
their use in object identifiers
ISO/IEC 9899 -  Information technology - Programming - -
languages - C
ISO/IEC 10646-1 -  Information technology - Universal - -
Multiple-Octet Coded Character Set (UCS)
-- Part 1: Architecture and Basic
Multilingual Plane
IEEE 754 -  IEEE Standard for Binary Floating-Point - -
Arithmetic
RFC 3629 -  UTF-8, User Datagram Protocol - -
W3C -  Cascading Style Sheets level 2 - -
Specification


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CONTENTS
FOREWORD . 16
INTRODUCTION . 18
1 Scope . 19
2 Normative references. 19
3 Terms, definitions, abbreviated terms and acronyms . 20
3.1 Terms and definitions . 20
3.2 Abbreviated terms and acronyms . 22
4 Conformance statement . 22
5 Conventions . 23
5.1 General . 23
5.2 Conventions for lexical structure . 23
5.2.1 ABC field1, field2 . 23
5.2.2 ABC field1+ . 24
5.2.3 ABC field2* . 24
5.2.4 ABC [field1, field2]+ . 24
5.2.5 ABC field1, (field2, field3) . 24
6 EDD and EDDL model . 24
6.1 Overview of EDD and EDDL . 24
6.2 EDD architecture . 24
6.3 Concepts of EDD . 24
6.4 Principles of the EDD development process . 25
6.4.1 General . 25
6.4.2 EDD source generation . 25
6.4.3 EDD preprocessing . 26
6.4.4 EDD compilation . 26
6.5 Interrelations between the lexical structure and formal definitions . 26
6.6 Builtins . 26
6.7 Profiles . 26
7 Electronic Device Description Language (EDDL) . 26
7.1 Overview. 26
7.1.1 EDDL features . 26
7.1.2 Syntax representation . 27
7.1.3 EDD language elements . 27
7.1.4 Basic construction elements . 27
7.1.5 Common attributes . 38
7.1.6 Special elements . 38
7.1.7 Rules for instances . 39
7.1.8 Rules for a list of VARIABLEs . 39
7.2 EDD identification information . 39
7.2.1 General structure . 39
7.2.2 Specific attributes . 39
7.3 AXIS . 42
7.3.1 General structure . 42
7.3.2 Specific attributes . 43
7.4 BLOCK . 45
7.4.1 BLOCK_A . 45

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7.4.2 BLOCK_B . 57
7.5 CHART . 59
7.5.1 General structure . 59
7.5.2 Specific attributes . 59
7.6 COLLECTION . 61
7.6.1 General structure . 61
7.6.2 Specific attribute – item-type . 62
7.7 COMMAND . 62
7.7.1 General structure . 62
7.7.2 Specific attributes . 63
7.8 COMPONENT . 69
7.8.1 General structure . 69
7.8.2 Specific attributes . 70
7.9 COMPONENT_FOLDER . 75
7.10 COMPONENT_REFERENCE . 76
7.11 COMPONENT_RELATION . 76
7.11.1 General structure . 76
7.11.2 Specific attributes . 77
7.12 CONNECTION (void) . 80
7.13 DOMAIN (void) . 80
7.14 EDIT_DISPLAY . 80
7.14.1 General structure . 80
7.14.2 Specific attributes . 81
7.15 FILE . 83
7.15.1 General structure . 83
7.15.2 Specific attributes . 83
7.16 GRAPH . 84
7.16.1 General structure . 84
7.16.2 Specific attributes . 85
7.17 GRID . 86
7.17.1 General structure . 86
7.17.2 Specific attributes . 86
7.18 IMAGE . 87
7.18.1 General structure . 87
7.18.2 Specific attributes . 88
7.19 IMPORT . 89
7.19.1 General structure . 89
7.19.2 Redefinitions . 91
7.20 INTERFACE . 107
7.20.1 General structure . 107
7.20.2 Specific attribute – DECLARATION . 107
7.21 LIKE . 108
7.22 LIST . 108
7.22.1 General structure . 108
7.22.2 Specific attributes . 109
7.23 MENU . 110
7.23.1 General structure . 110
7.23.2 Specific attributes . 111
7.23.3 Sequence diagrams for actions. 116

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7.24 METHOD . 118
7.24.1 General structure . 118
7.24.2 Specific attributes . 119
7.25 PROGRAM (void) . 121
7.26 RECORD . 121
7.27 REFERENCE_ARRAY . 122
7.27.1 General structure . 122
7.27.2 Specific attribute – ELEMENTS . 122
7.28 Relations . 123
7.28.1 REFRESH . 123
7.28.2 UNIT . 123
7.28.3 WRITE_AS_ONE . 124
7.29 RESPONSE_CODES . 124
7.30 SOURCE . 125
7.30.1 General structure . 125
7.30.2 Specific attributes . 126
7.31 TEMPLATE . 127
7.31.1 General structure . 127
7.31.2 Specific attribute – DEFAULT_VALUES . 127
7.32 VALUE_ARRAY . 128
7.32.1 General structure . 128
7.32.2 Specific attributes . 128
7.33 VARIABLE . 129
7.33.1 General structure . 129
7.33.2 Specific attributes . 130
7.34 VARIABLE_LIST . 148
7.35 WAVEFORM . 148
7.35.1 General structure . 148
7.35.2 Specific attributes . 149
7.36 Common attributes . 155
7.36.1 CLASSIFICATION . 155
7.36.2 COMPONENT_PARENT . 156
7.36.3 COMPONENT_PATH . 157
7.36.4 DEFINITION . 157
7.36.5 EMPHASIS . 158
7.36.6 HANDLING . 158
7.36.7 HEIGHT . 158
7.36.8 HELP . 159
7.36.9 LABEL . 160
7.36.10 LINE_COLOR . 160
7.36.11 LINE_TYPE . 160
7.36.12 MEMBERS . 161
7.36.13 PROTOCOL . 162
7.36.14 RESPONSE_CODES . 163
7.36.15 SUPPLIED_INTERFACE . 163
7.36.16 VALIDITY. 163
7.36.17 WIDTH . 164
7.36.18 PRIVATE . 164
7.36.19 VISIBILITY . 164

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7.36.20 WRITE_MODE . 165
7.36.21 IDENTITY . 165
7.37 Conditional expression . 166
7.38 Referencing . 167
7.38.1 Referencing an EDD instance . 167
7.38.2 Referencing bits of a BIT_ENUMERATED VARIABLE . 168
7.38.3 Referencing members of a RECORD . 168
7.38.4 Referencing elements of a VALUE_ARRAY . 168
7.38.5 Referencing members of a COLLECTION . 169
7.38.6 Referencing elements of a REFERENCE_ARRAY . 169
7.38.7 Referencing members of a VARIABLE_LISTS . 169
7.38.8 Referencing elements of BLOCK_A PARAMETERS . 170
7.38.9 Referencing elements of BLOCK_A PARAMETER_LISTS . 170
7.38.10 Referencing elements of BLOCK_A LOCAL_PARAMETERS . 170
7.38.11 Referencing BLOCK_A CHARACTERISTICS . 171
7.38.12 Referencing members of a FILE . 171
7.38.13 Referencing elements of a LIST . 171
7.38.14 Referencing members of a CHART . 172
7.38.15 Referencing members of a GRAPH . 172
7.38.16 Referencing members of a SOURCE . 172
7.38.17 Referencing AXIS of a GRAPH, SOURCE, WAVEFORM . 173
7.38.18 Referencing PARAMETERS of specific BLOCK_A instance . 173
7.38.19 Referencing LOCAL_PARAMETERS of specific BLOCK_A instance . 174
7.38.20 Referencing CHARACTERISTICS of specific BLOCK_A instance . 174
7.38.21 Referencing CHARTS of specific BLOCK_A instance . 174
7.38.22 Referencing LISTS of specific BLOCK_A instance . 175
7.38.23 Referencing GRAPHS of specific BLOCK_A instance . 175
7.38.24 Referencing GRIDS of specific BLOCK_A instance . 176
7.38.25 Referencing MENUS of specific BLOCK_A instance . 176
7.38.26 Referencing METHODS of specific BLOCK_A instance . 177
7.38.27 Referencing COMPONENT instances . 177
7.38.28 Referencing COMPONENT types . 178
7.38.29 Referencing FILES of specific BLOCK_A instance . 178
7.38.30 Referencing PLUGINS of specific BLOCK_A instance . 178
7.39 Strings . 179
7.39.1 Specifying a string as a string literal . 179
7.39.2 Specifying a string as a string variable. 179
7.39.3 Specifying a string as an enumeration value . 180
7.39.4 Specifying a string as a dictionary reference . 180
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