Patent ID: 6600963
Filing Date: 2003-07-29
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
A modular architecture of items of electronic equipment for a control of an industrial process, comprising:receptacles containing data-concentration modules and processing modules supplied with energy by power supply modules; critical display devices; and data transmission means for interconnecting the receptacles and the critical display devices to critical sensors, noncritical sensors and actuators, wherein the critical sensors transmit their critical information directly to the critical display devices and to the data-concentration and processing modules of the receptacles, the data-concentration modules, on the basis of data from the critical and noncritical sensors, deriving noncritical data intended for the critical display devices and for the processing modules via a multi-receiver serial digital bus, the processing modules deriving commands intended for the actuators on the basis of the data from the critical sensors and of noncritical data output by the concentration modules.