The conception of distributed application and the fieldbus configuration: a concurrent engineering vision

This paper presents some properties which must be verified by a distributed application project in order to make good use of fieldbuses. In general, application and network projects are developed by different people, therefore a good interaction must be reached. With the aim of doing that, concurrent engineering has been more and more used. A specification methodology (internal behavioral and conceptual configuration models) of a real-time distributed application is presented, based on both concurrent engineering and network transparency concept, which offers all necessary information to the network project.<>