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ICD acronym = Intelligent Electronic Device (IED) Capability Description

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This document describes the use of SystemCORP’s Intelligent Electronic Device (IED) Capability Description (ICD) Designer application. This “SystemCorp ICD Designer” application is used to define and edit substation configuration descriptions for IEC 61850 through a graphical user interface to create an XML formatted file.

This document is divided into 2 sections:

• Overview with General Description that includes a list of abbreviation using IEC 61850 in IED’s; and a
• User Guide that walks through adding, deleting, and editing each device and node objects in ICD Designer.

WebCAN Designer Studio (WDS) specific protocols are beyond the scope of this document. For WDS DNP3, GPRS Gateway, IEC870-5-101 and other protocols see the appropriate SystemCORP documents.

The International Electro-technical Commission (IEC) 61850 specification details are beyond the scope of this document. See the IEC 61850 specification document titles listed in the next section.

Also see the IEC 61850 Single Chip Solution PowerPoint Presentation download page to download movies (*.wmv) using ICD Designer or to see them on YouTube.