I got DeltaV Simulate on my Laptop, now I need to start building controls strategies. I noticed that I can build modules but there is no option to build IO cards and assign it to ProPlus station (Stand alone Simulation node). Any suggestions would be appreciated.
From what I understand....
You should be able to "build" IO cards. Start by adding a controller (Right click on "CONTROL NETWORK")
Then you can add the cards by right click "IO"
You can build your whole system this way, but unfortunately you can't do a lot with it. You can build control strategies, assign them to the controller, assign IO to the controllers. You just can't download and test as the actual hardware isn't there.
If you want to test your control strategies you can assign and download them to the PROPLUS (your simulate workstation).
You then would have to do things like put your AI blocks in simulate, as there is no real IO to talk to.
I haven't tried the new CHARM simulator, but as I understand it, it's a virtual machine that runs on your PC to act like a CIOC. So you would be able to download to it, and simulate IO. But your modules would still need to be assigned, and downloaded to your simulate workstation.
Hope that helps.
-Travis
In reply to Travis Neale:
The DeltaV simulated CHARM IO Card works as a real I/O card and communicates with DeltaV S-series controllers. This would not help you with a DeltaV Simulate Stand Alone as you require real controllers to communicate with CHARMS. The Simulated CHARM IO is intended to facilitate software chechout, using real controllers, so the configuration is executing in the final control environment.
DeltaV Simulate standalone is intended to allow you to create a verify control strategies and operator displays using the PC's virtual controller, and as explained, does not have real I/O. Without the real controller, you don't have I/O assignments for the I/O blocks, but you can create unassigned DST's. YOu have a choice: Create a controller and I/O, and use these DST's to create your configuration; or, you can simply define the DST in the I/O block and assign the control module to the PC. You don't need to create the controller and I/O to create the modules and run them locally.
To add a bit of life to your simulated environment, you can add modules to simulate the process. Read teh output of a control module and create a process model (first order lag with dead time) and write the caclulated process variable back to the simulate in of the AI block. This way, you can run the module and even tune it.
Andre Dicaire