US 7,587,250 B2
Controller with configurable connections between data processing components
James J. Coogan, Des Plaines, Ill. (US); and Virgil Seribo, Deerfield, Ill. (US)
Assigned to Siemens Building Technologies, Inc., Buffalo Grove, Ill. (US)
Filed on Jul. 22, 2004, as Appl. No. 10/897,416.
Claims priority of provisional application 60/489306, filed on Jul. 22, 2003.
Prior Publication US 2005/0033453 A1, Feb. 10, 2005
Int. Cl. G05B 11/01 (2006.01); G05B 13/02 (2006.01); G05B 15/00 (2006.01); G06F 15/177 (2006.01); G06F 9/44 (2006.01)
U.S. Cl. 700—17  [700/9; 700/19; 700/42; 700/83; 700/275; 715/734; 715/740; 715/965; 717/171] 21 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
16. A controller assembly comprising:
a housing;
a plurality of input terminals operably connected to a building automation system, the plurality of input terminals supported by said housing;
a plurality of output terminals operably connected to the building automation system, the plurality of output terminals supported by said housing;
a processing circuit supported by said housing, the processing circuit pre-programmed into at least one read only memory to perform at least four loop control functions, the processing circuit operably coupled to the plurality of input terminals and the plurality of output terminals; and
a memory operably coupled to the processing circuit and operably configured to store configuration information selected by a user, the configuration information identifying logical input connections and logical output connections for each of the four loop control functions;
wherein the processing circuit operably provides at least one output value based on at least one input value received from at least one of the plurality of input terminals to at least one of the plurality of output terminals based on the stored configuration information.