IEC 61158-4-19:2014 specifies procedures for the timely transfer of data and control information from one data-link user entity to a peer user entity, and among the data-link entities forming the distributed data-link service provider and the structure of the fieldbus DLPDUs used for the transfer of data and control information by the protocol of this standard, and their representation as physical interface data units. This third edition cancels and replaces the second edition published in 2010 and constitutes a technical revision. The main changes are:
- introducing connections based on a producer-consumer model;
- introducing additional mechanisms to realize features such as timestamping and oversampling;
- improving the hotplug and redundancy features;
- improving the phase switching and the error handling.