Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

Masanobu Miyata

Saburo Kubota

Tutomu Sakurai

Hiroshi Fujiwara

Kenji Sajima

Katsutoshi Ohnishi

Kenichiro Suzuki

Keishiro Ota

An apparatus is provided for supporting the development of a sequence software to be used for controlling the operation of an automated equipment. A sequencer specification input device inputs specification information of various types of sequencers. Equipment characteristics of an equipment to be controlled are implemented by inputting simulated characteristic thereof. An arbitrary environment of the operation of the equipment is implemented by inputting a simulation condition. The result of the executed operation of the equipment can be checked in an arbitrary form.

Apparatus for supporting the development of sequence software to be used

In a data transfer apparatus, as one substation in a loop type signal transfer system, e.g. for use in an automatic machine, synchronization information and address information are received and the address is checked by an address coincidence circuit; when address coincidence is detected the data information in the received signal is replaced by serialized data which is contrived by parallel-serial conversion of the parallel input data at the substation; therefore there is no need of once storing the entire received signal transferred, and therefore, high speed data transfer results.

Data transfer apparatus

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Neyagawa, Japan

Masanobu Miyata