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Fieldbus Foundation, Austin, TX, offers its enhanced H1 interoperability test kit (ITK) v5.0 that now lets you test Foundation fieldbus devices using current Device Description 5.0 files. The test kit verifies the functionality of an H1 device and its conformity with the Foundation fieldbus Function Block and Transducer Block specifications and includes all hardware and software required. Multi-bit alarm testing now tests for single and multi-bit alarms, block instantiation is now as specified in the capabilities file, and testing for valid/invalid behavior during common software download has been added.
