Siemens Aktiengesellschaft

Manfred Prechtl

Dietmar Schulz

Georg Rupprecht

Bernhard Jany

Armin Amrhein

Thilo Opaterny

Lothar Trapp

Heinrich Kulzer

Helmut Macht

Klaus Göbel

Ulrich Goeddemeier

Ulrich Göddemeier

Andre Lengemann

Christof Wombacher

Werner Kuske

Genther Bock

The invention relates to a method for operating a computer system. The inventive method allows best possible utilization of the efficiency of a concrete target hardware by providing in a program alternative passages of which exactly one is selected for execution by the processor by means of a code.

Method for operating a computer system

In the field of automation technology, processes, which are controlled by stored program controllers (), are divided into modules, which are also known as function blocks. If possible, these function blocks should be used universally. The interfaces of these modules are different from or independent of the technological parameters of the actual technical function. It is a problem for the user to have access to internal knowledge of the program in order to implement the controller () for a specific application. To address this and other problems, a programming tool and programming method for creating programs are disclosed, which will provide the user (), either additionally or alternatively, with technological insight into a process that is to be controlled and/or regulated. An interface () is connected between the user () and the stored program controller (), and a plurality of input masks () is offered to the user () for inputting technological parameters of the process. Therein a respective input mask () is assigned to at least a part of the function blocks.

Programming tool and programming method

A new storage-programmable control system having several inputs (8) and outputs (9) for linking process control elements, for example sensors or final controlling elements has at least one logic module (10) with an internal interconnection, through which at least one output is connected to its corresponding input (E0).

Programmable control system including a logic module and a method for

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Manfred Prechtl