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Plc On A Chip

Wednesday, December 01, 2004

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Plc On A Chip

This PLC on a chip is a single chip programmable logic controller that can be embedded in OEM products such as sensors, drives, custom controls, and valve assemblies to allow easy user programming, which is done in ladder diagram and function block with EZ Ladder PC-based software. Programs can contain up to 51 instructions/blocks. Instructions include contacts, coils, counters, timers, control relays, math functions, bit manipulation functions, drum sequencers, floating point/Boolean/integer, closed-loop control functions, and communication functions. Controllers are available with 128K bytes to 512K bytes of Flash memory and 8K bytes to 14K bytes of RAM. All have eight 10-bit analog inputs, up to eight 8-bit or four 16-bit PWM outputs, and a choice of 26 digital inputs and 26 digital outputs or 24 inputs and 15 outputs plus 256 external points. They also have one TTL programming port and one TTL multi-purpose port. Two of the four models have CAN ports.
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