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Conformance Certificate
A conformance certificate consists of two (2) pages currently. Page 1 of the certificate contains seven (7) sets of key information regarding:
(1) The type of certificate. If the certificate indicates Level A, then the
test lab is not affiliated with any vendor.
(2) The vendor and the product being tested. If there are multiple
product variants being tested, those are declared on page 2 of the
certificate.
(3) The version of test cases and TPCL used as the basis of testing.
(4) The specific implementation conformance statements provided
by the vendor for the product under test.
(5) Which conformance blocks are claimed and how many of the
possible test cases were executed.
(6) The version of the test tools used for testing.
(7) The name and address of the accredited test lab.
In order to interpret the summary test results (shown on page
2), users should obtain the appropriate TPCL, implementation
conformance statements, and PIXIT. Page 2 restates certain
information found on page 1 and provides a summary of the test
cases which were executed and passed. The summary test results are
divided amongst:
(8) Mandatory tests that are selected based upon the PICS and potentially
modified by the TICS, provided by the vendor. As an example, it is acceptable
to have an IED that does not support IEC 61850 file transfer. If no file transfer
model support was declared in the PICS, no mandatory tests would even be
executed by the test lab and no mandatory or conditional test results would be
present in the table.
(9) Conditional tests that are selected based upon a combination of the PICS
and PIXIT information provided by the vendor.
In the columns, the test case name is shown if the test case passed. In order to
obtain a conformance certificate, all mandatory and required conditional tests
must pass. Although users need to understand the mandatory tests at a high
level (e.g. if the user needs an IED to publish GOOSE, mandatory test results
need to be present), they also need to know which conditional tests need to be
executed in order to meet their application requirements. The best place for a
user to start is the TPCL and the abstract test case document, both of which are
posted on the UCAIug website. As an example of a summary, a user might see:
GopN1
When GoEna=TRUE, no attribute of the GoCB control block can be set except GoEna
GopN1 is the test case name. Test case names have the general format of:
<service model name> [service constraint][negative]<test number>
The service model name and test number are mandatory. The service constraint (e.g. publisher or subscriber) and negative (e.g. N) are
optional.
It is important for users to understand that two vendors products each with an equivalent conformance statement (e.g. the same
mandatory and conditional test passing) does not guarantee application interoperability as object models and other constraints may also
have an impact on interoperability.
CONSULTING
IEC 61850: Conformance Cert / 2014 SISCO INC. / 082014
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