The following table provides information to developers and users of FDI Device Packages about the available
features in each release of the FDI Tools, and the FDI Technology Version support these features.
| FDI IDE version | 1.6 | 1.5 | 1.4 | 1.3 |
| Release date | October 2023 | May 2022 | September 2019 | May 2018 |
| Underlying FDI Specifications | ||||
| FDI Technology Version | 1.3 | 1.3 | 1.2 | 1.1 |
| EDDL Syntax and Semantics | unified ed 4.1 | unified ed 4.1 | unified ed 4 | unified ed 4 |
| EDD Interpretation | unified ed 2.1 | unified ed 2.1 | unified ed 2 | unified ed 2 |
| EDD Builtin library | unified ed 2.1 | unified ed 2.1 | unified ed 2 | unified ed 2 |
| FDI IDE and Common Host Components features and functions | ||||
| Deployment FDI Package IDE | ||||
| Installation of all entities (customizable) | x | x | x | x |
| Sample device packages | x | x | x | x |
| Update, Repair, Uninstall the product | x | x | x | x |
| DPCTT | x | x | x | x |
| FDI IDE Plug-In | ||||
| Configuration of Tokenizers in IDE Plug-In | x | x | x | x |
| Create FDI Packages/FDI Package Project | x | x | x | x |
| Create HART (fm8) DDs, HART DD project | x | x | x | x |
| Create FF (ff4, ff5) DDs, FF DD project | x | x | x | x |
| Tokenize EDDL Code to FDI Binary Format | x | x | x | x |
| Tokenize EDDL Code to HART fm8 binary format | x | x | x | x |
| Tokenize EDDL Code to FF ff4 and ff5 binary format | x | x | x | x |
| Launch RRTE from IDE Plug-In | x | x | x | x |
| FDI Package signature | x | x | x | x |
| Support COMPONENT construct (PROFIBUS, PROFINET) | x | x | x | x |
| Time stamp for FDI Package signature | x | x | x | x |
| Semantic Information | x | x | x | - |
| Create DeviceInfo files and add to device package for HART | x | x | x | - |
| Attachment Metadata | x | x | - | - |
| Feature Table | x | - | - | - |
| RRTE/Common Host Components | ||||
| Deploy/instantiate/load FDI Package to RRTE | x | x | x | x |
| Deploy/instantiate/load legacy HART (fm8) DD to RRTE | x | x | x | x |
| Deploy/instantiate/load legacy FF (ff4, ff5) DD to RRTE | x | x | x | x |
| Connect to device read/write values online | x | x | x | x |
| Remove Package from RRTE Catalog | x | x | x | x |
| Remove EDD from RRTE Catalog | x | x | x | x |
| Support OPCUA communication server (COMPONENT construct) | x | x | x | x |
| Offline operation/Upload/Download for FDI | x | x | x | x |
| Offline operation/Upload/Download for legacy HART | x | x | x | x |
| Offline operation/upload/Download for legacy FF | x | x | x | x |
| Interface to DPCTT | x | x | x | x |
| Modular Devices (COMPONENT constructs) | x | x | x | x |
| EDD debugging (HART, FF) | x | x | x | - |
| EDD debugging (PROFIBUS, PROFINET) | x | x | x | - |
| Device variants (PROFIBUS/PROFINET) | x | x | x | x |
| FDI Package signature validation | x | x | x | x |
| UIP running in sandbox | x | x | x | x |
| HTML5 UIP | x | x | x | - |
| Generic Protocol Extension | x | x | x | x |
| OPC UA interface for communication servers in general | x | x | - | - |
| EDD Engine platform independency | x | x | x | - |
| Semantic Information | x | x | - | - |
| Interactive transfer to device | x | x | - | - |
| FDI Package Test Tool (DPCTT) | ||||
| FDI device package test | x | x | x | x |
| HTML5 support | x | x | - | - |
| OPC UA Servers | ||||
| OPC UA information model server | - | - | x | x |
| OPC UA PA-DIM server | x | x | - | - |
| Communication Protocols | ||||
| HART, integrated part of RRTE | x | x | x | x |
| FF H1, integrated part of RRTE | x | x | x | x |
| PROFIBUS, integrated part of RRTE | x | x | x | x |
| PROFINET communicaiton server | x | x | x | x |
| ISA 100 communication server | x | x | x | x |
| HART-IP communicaiton server | x | x | x | x |
| OPC UA communication server | x | x | - | - |
| HART, communication server | x | x | - | - |
| PROFIBUS, communication server | x | x | - | - |
| Device Simulation | ||||
| HART | x | x | x | x |
| FF H1 | x | x | x | x |
| PROFIBUS | x | - | - | - |
| PROFINET | x | - | - | - |