IEC 61131-3 is the third part (of 10) of the international standard IEC 61131 for programmable logic controllers. It was first published in December 1993[1] by the IEC; the current (third) edition was published in February 2013.[2]
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Part 3 of IEC 61131 deals with basic software architecture and programming languages of the control program within PLC. It defines three graphical and two textual programming language standards:
- Elementary Data Type
- Bit Strings – groups of on/off values
- BOOL - 1 bit (0,1)
- BYTE – 8 bit (1 byte)
- WORD – 16 bit (2 byte)
- DWORD – 32 bit (4 byte)
- LWORD – 64 bit (8 byte)
- INTEGER – whole numbers (Considering byte size 8 bits)
- SINT – signed short integer (1 byte)
- INT – signed integer (2 byte)
- DINT – signed double integer (4 byte)
- LINT – signed long integer (8 byte)
- USINT – Unsigned short integer (1 byte)
- UINT – Unsigned integer (2 byte)
- UDINT – Unsigned double integer (4 byte)
- ULINT – Unsigned long integer (8 byte)
- REAL – floating point IEC 60559 (same as IEEE 754-2008)
- REAL – (4 byte)
- LREAL – (8 byte)
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Duration literals
Unit |
Description |
d |
Day |
h |
Hour |
m |
Minute |
s |
Second |
ms |
Millisecond |
us |
Microsecond |
ns |
Nanosecond |
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- Duration [4]
- TIME – (implementer specific). Literals in the form of T#5m90s15ms
- LTIME – (8 byte). Literals extend to nanoseconds in the form of T#5m90s15ms542us15ns
- Date
- DATE – calendar date (implementer specific)
- LDATE – calendar date (8 byte, nanoseconds since 1970-01-01, restricted to multiple of one day)
- Time of day
- TIME_OF_DAY / TOD – clock time (implementer specific)
- LTIME_OF_DAY / LTOD – clock time (8 byte)
- Date and time of Day
- DATE_AND_TIME / DT – time and date (implementer specific)
- LDATE_AND_TIME / LDT – time and date (8 byte, nanoseconds since 1970-01-01)
- Character / Character string
- CHAR – Single-byte character (1 byte, limited to characters 0 to 255 of ISO/IEC 10646)
- WCHAR – Double-byte character (2 byte, limited to characters 0 to 65535 of ISO/IEC 10646)
- STRING – Variable-length single-byte character string. Literals specified with single quote, 'This is a STRING Literal'
- WSTRING – Variable-length double-byte character string. Literals specified with a double quote, "This is a WSTRING Literal"
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STRING escape sequences
Escape sequence |
Produces |
$$ |
$ |
$' |
' |
$L |
linefeed |
$N |
newline |
$P |
page (form feed) |
$R |
return |
$T |
tab |
$xx |
hex value |
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- Generic Data Types – Only available for the input / output/ in-out variables of system-defined Program Organization Units (POUs, see below)
- ANY
- ANY_DERIVED
- ANY_ELEMENTARY
- ANY_MAGNITUDE
- ANY_NUM
- ANY_REAL: LREAL, REAL
- ANY_INT
- ANY_UNSIGNED: ULINT, UDINT, UINT, USINT
- ANY_SIGNED: LINT, DINT, INT, SINT
- ANY_DURATION: TIME, LTIME
- ANY_BIT: LWORD, DWORD, WORD, BYTE, BOOL
- ANY_CHARS
- ANY_STRING: STRING, WSTRING
- ANY_CHAR: CHAR, WCHAR
- ANY_DATE: DATE_AND_TIME (DT), DATE_AND_TIME(LDT), DATE, TIME_OF_DAY (TOD), LTIME_OF_DAY(LTOD)
- User-defined Data Types
- Enumerated data type
- Enumerated data type with named value
- Subrange data type – puts limits on value i.e., INT(4 .. 20) for current
- Array data type – multiple values stored in the same variable.
- Structured data type – composite of several variables and types.
- Directly derived data type – type derived from one of the above types to give new name and initial value as a type.
- References – a kind of strongly typed pointer. Arithmetic operation of the value of this type is prohibited.
Variable attributes: RETAIN, CONSTANT, AT
- Global
- Direct (local)
- I/O Mapping – Input, Output, I/O
- External
- Temporary
- Resource – Like a CPU
- Tasks – Can be multiple per CPU.
- Programs – Can be executed once, on a timer, on an event.
- Functions
- Standard: ADD, SQRT, SIN, COS, GT, MIN, MAX, AND, OR, etc.
- Custom
- Function Blocks
- Standard:
- Custom – Libraries of functions can be supplied by a vendor or third party.
- Programs
- Configuration – processing resources, memory for IO, execution rates, number of tasks.
- The 3rd revision of the standard describes how to implement OOP within the application programming
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