Are you looking for IEC 61850 TICS, PICS, PIXIT, … Documents?

I talked the other day to experts of a big user. We shared our experience of increased “information hiding” when it comes to the availability and accessibility of the various documents like PICS, PIXIT, TICS, … Product handbooks, manuals, … When you checked websites of major vendors some years ago, you could find a bunch of technical material … I have figured out that these documents are quite often hidden … or not anymore available online.

I found still good examples for downloading many of the these crucial documents:

Click HERE for a Website of ABB to find PICS and other documents

Click HERE for a Website of Alstom Grid to find PICS …

Click HERE for a Website of Schneider Electric to find PICS and other documents.

Click HERE for a Website of Siemens to find some 30 PIXIT documents.
Click HERE to see a list of some 40 references to IEC 61850 Ethernet Module EN100.

Congratulation to the IEC 61850 Teams!

Enjoy the documents. Are you looking for help to understand these documents? Why do we need these at all? Isn’t IEC 61850 a standard? … and then all these documents …

Click HERE to get help!

What does a PIXIT provide?

PIXIT stands for “Protocol Implementation eXtra Information for Testing”. The objective is to provide crucial information for the test lab.

One example is the value for the “Maximum number of clients that can set-up a 2-party association simultaneously”, e.g., value=16. Does this mean that the maximum number of clients is restricted to 16? No! The value of 16 is used by the Testlab to run test cases. The number can be much bigger!

The PIXIT document for a SystemCorp IEC 61850 IED lists for the stack/API ina value of 16 – BUT the stack/API and the IED supports up to 255 clients!

If you want to know what a device supports, you should read technical specifications of the IED. A lot of vendors use the PIXIT also as a kind of technical specification. The PIXIT documents should contain a note that the values given in the PIXIT document may be restricted for testing purposes only. PIXIT documents should also show the limits of the IED when applied in real applications.

Download PIXIT Document for a specific IED.

Conformance Certificate for SystemCorp's IEC 61850 Device using Stack PIS-10 on Beck IPC Chip

SystemCorp has implemented their stack software on the Beck IPC Chip SC143 in their IED "IEC 61850 WebCAN Substation Monitoring & Control System". The IED is a multifunctional monitoring and control system.

KEMA (Arnhem, Netherlands) tested the IEC 61850 conformance successfully:

Click HERE for a copy of the certificate [PDF, 1MB].

Test has been conducted according to the PICS, PIXIT, TICS, and MICS Documents that can be accessed through:

http://www.systemcorp.com.au/component/content/article/24-user-manuals/63-iec-61850-pics-pixit-tics-mics.html

Details of the IED can be found here:

http://www.systemcorp.com.au/component/content/article/24/74-webcan-rtu-system-description.html

This is a major step towards the widespread use of the IEC 61850 stack from SystemCorp for small devices. The IEC 61850 software and the IEC 61850 communication behavior is almost completely implemented on the Beck IPC Chip SC143. Products that use the same chip with the software used for the conformance test would - by default - pass most crucial parts of the IEC 61850 conformance test.

This allows a short time-to-market IED development for all devices that apply the Beck IPC Chip.

Please contact SystemCorp for more details.

A flyer on the Beck Chips can be found here:

http://nettedautomation.com/download/IEC61850Li.pdf

Do you know what a PIXIT or a TICS is?

The conformance of devices with IEC 61850 has several aspects that are mainly specified in the following documents:

PICS	Protocol Implementation Conformance Statement: Which Communication services are supported ...	Click HERE for a complete example (all examples shown here are for A specific IED: RTU of SystemCorp); the stack software from SystemCorp offers more.
PIXIT	Protocol Implementation Conformance Extra Information for Testing: Restrictions and Limitations found in a device ...	Click HERE for a complete example
MICS	Model Implementation Conformance Statement: Models supported ...	Click HERE for a complete example
TICS	Tissue Implementation Conformance Statement: Which tissues have been implemented: www.tissue.iec61850.com	Click HERE for a complete example
SICS	SCL Implementation Conformance Statement: Which aspects of SCL have been implemented in a Tool

Please ask your vendor of the IEDs or tools (you want to apply) for these documents. They provide you a good level of details you need to know when building multi-vendor systems.

Excerpt of a PICS:

Excerpt of a PIXIT:

Excerpt of a MICS:

Excerpt of a TICS:

Excerpt of a SICS (Template from IEC 61850-6):

For smooth system integration it is quite crucial to read and understand these documents!!

Extended C# Client Application for IEC 61850 Evaluation Kit based on DLL

NettedAutomation has updated the C# Client application (GUI) of the IEC 61850 Evaluation Kit (DLL); the server is still the same. The new GUI supports polling values, e.g., the temperature, status or alarms, from the server provided earlier:

The API allows manual copy and paste (just select the range of values and copy them) as well as storing the values in a database, Excel sheet, or ...

Values copied and pasted:

07:12:07.562 AM: Temperature value is 32
07:12:17.718 AM: Temperature value is 32
07:12:27.812 AM: Temperature value is 31
07:12:37.921 AM: Temperature value is 30
07:12:48.015 AM: Temperature value is 30
07:12:58.109 AM: Temperature value is 30
07:13:08.218 AM: Temperature value is 30
...

Different polling rates can be selected.

Note that this GUI comes as executable program and in source code (.Net project)! You can use the example and modify as you want ... it is just so easy to use the IEC 61850 Client API ...configured by an SCL file.

The server console (very easy to run and use!) from the existing Kit looks like this: Changes entered, e.g., t29 changes the temp value to 29 in the server ... this is sent to the client and polled by the client ...

Click HERE to download the new C# client application (exe and source code). You will be asked to enter your Email and Password -> "Sign in ..." OR if you don't have an account or forgot your password: Just enter your Email (required) in the middle of the form and click at "I agree with ...". You will immediately receive a new or your current password:

 

Please find the three (3) updated files as shown here:

The exe code can be used as soon as you have the corresponding server from the server running (see figure above: EXE/SOURCE CODE: Simple Server and Client -- IEC 61850/61400-25 FREE Evaluation/Starter Kit using a DLL: Server and Client).

Click HERE for a list of supported Server services that is almost completely implemented in the DLL ; the Client (same DLL) provides complementary services.

Enjoy the extended C# application.

Note that the same API is provided by the IEC61850@CHIP from Beck (see next post).