Patent ID: 11875236
Assignee: FISHER-ROSEMOUNT SYSTEMS, INC
Field: Control (Instruments)
Classification: CPC G  Y | IPC G

Claim 8:
9. The industrial distributed process control system of claim 5, wherein:
the DCS further includes an initial set of I/O data delivery functions that has been stored on the one or more tangible, non-transitory memories of the set of pluggable DCS hardware modules prior to an initialization of the DCS, the initial set of I/O data delivery functions including one or more of: an analog I/O function, a discrete I/O function, a motion I/O function, a near-infrared (NIR) I/O function, another type of I/O transport function, a sampling function, or a signal conditioning function; and
the respective I/O data delivery mechanism is based on the initial set of I/O data delivery functions.