IEC 61850 Modifying the ICD File

[BTogay]

Hi,

For a project that me and my colleagues are working on, we have to set up an IEC61850 GOOSE communication link between a PXI device and a SEL RTAC device. So far, we went over the example publisher vi that comes with the IEC61850 driver and successfully implemented it in our project. We have modified the .icd file to create space for our data, and we were able to confirm that the device broadcasts the correct data by viewing the GOOSE frames in Wireshark.
When we tried to add the .icd file to the RTAC device, however, we started getting compatibility issues. We have learned that RTAC needs the data that we are transmitting to be in a GGIO node, which we couldn't figure out how to set.
Devices such as SEL RTAC has programs which can be used to modify and link .icd files, but we were unable to find a similar program made by NI. Are there any tools that we can use to modify the .icd file, or is writing it by hand the only way we can make changes?

Thanks in advance

[Dane.S]

Are you using the following driver?

https://www.ni.com/en-us/shop/product/ni-industrial-communications-for-iec-61850.html

I believe that you have to edit icd files by hand and that NI does not offer any software to modify icd files. 

[BTogay]

Hi Dane,

Yes, we are using that driver on an evaluation licence.

If modifying the icd files by hand is the only available option, are there any documents that I can use as a guideline to make cleaner changes to our file?

Regards,

Bora