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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 23, 2023
Filed:
Oct. 22, 2019
Fisher-rosemount Systems, Inc., Round Rock, TX (US);
Gary K. Law, Georgetown, TX (US);
Godfrey R. Sherriff, Austin, TX (US);
FISHER-ROSEMOUNT SYSTEMS, INC., Round Rock, TX (US);
Abstract
Techniques for enabling the configuration of a voting block for use in a process control system of a process plant are described. According to certain aspects, the voting block may have a voting scheme that dictates an output based on a set of inputs, where the voting block may be configured parametrically using various control selections that direct the behavior of the voting scheme. In particular, a bypass degrade selection may be specified for one or more inputs that controls whether a 'bypass' input degrades the voting scheme, a status degrade selection may be specified for one or more inputs that controls whether a 'bad' input degrades the voting scheme, and a trip enable selection may be specified that controls whether a trip occurs automatically under certain conditions. The control selections enable the voting blocks to be configured to conform with various specifications and other requirements.