Prototype of a tool for automatic code generation for programmable logic controllers (PLCs)

Customer	Internal project in the framework of a research programme
Duration	2001 - 2004
Objectives	To simplify and speed up the process of software development, while ensuring higher quality of the resulting code for controllers.
Description	Automatic mapping of specifications into PLC code.
Innovation	Development and application of domain-specific software tools for setting up specifications and the generation of programme code together with the documentation.
Benefits	Compared to the classical conversion of specifications into programme code “by hand”, which is often time consuming and prone to errors, code generation takes almost no time and is error free. This results in a better quality of the code, reduced development costs and, consequently, increased efficiency of the development process.
Info	gregor.kandare@ijs.si giovanni.godena@ijs.si

Department of Systems and Control