ABB Ability™ Symphony® Plus HR Series Control and I/O

support costs, reusing physical and intellectual

control and I/O investments, and adding new

products and features with ease.

Powerful, scalable control platform

HR Series controllers are the latest in a long

line of field-proven multi-function rack process

controllers, and include the BRC300, BRC400,

and the BRC410 bridge controllers (figure 3).

This scalable family of controllers, based on a

160 MHz, 32-bit Freescale Coldfire processor, can

be adapted to a broad spectrum of applications

and process requirements. HR Series controllers

feature an extensive library of more than 150

predefined control algorithms or function

codes. These functions provide the power to

easily design complex control strategies to fit

any control application, including continuous,

sequential, batch and advanced control. In

addition to standard function blocks, HR Series

controllers support C programming and batch

functions.

HR Series controller features include:

• Enhanced controller reliability

• More than 10x performance of previous

generation controllers

• Simultaneous support for all HR Series I/O,

SD Series I/O and S800 I/O subsystems

• Intelligent device integration via HART I/O

and PROFIBUS DP V0, V1, V2

• Downloadable firmware

• BRC400 / BRC410 specific enhancements:

– Extended user configuration memory

(2 MB NVRAM)

– Support for 30,000 function blocks

– Flexible online configuration capability

– Modbus TCP device integration via 100 MB

Ethernet port (BRC410 only)