Starting a field device

摘要

During starting of a field device for pressure measurement, flow measurement and/or fill level measurement, which field device including a memory that includes a boot memory region in which a boot function is stored, and an operating memory region in which an operating function is stored, the following steps are carried out: carrying out the boot function; determining whether a memory check of the operating memory region is to be carried out; carrying out a memory check of the operating memory region when it has been determined that a memory check is to be carried out; and carrying out the operating function.

主权项

1. A method for starting a field device for at least one of pressure measurement, flow measurement and fill level measurement, the field device including a memory that includes a boot memory region in which a boot function is stored, and an operating memory region in which an operating function is stored, the method comprising the steps of:
carrying out the boot function; determining whether a memory check of the operating memory region is to be carried out; carrying out a memory check of the operating memory region when it has been determined that a memory check is to be carried out; dispensing with a memory check of the operating memory region if a preceding system start was successful; and carrying out the operating function.