MatPLC user manual

Foreword

• On the web at http://mat.sourceforge.net/manual/ This version is updated every eight hours from the developers' version.
• In each distribution (alderaan, weekly, etc), in doc/manual/index.html
• As PDF or PostScript for printing; please ask on the mailing list for this, we do not have anything automated set up.

Table of Contents

• General
  • Introduction
  • Who should read this manual
  • System Requirements
  • Safety Considerations
    Disclaimer of Warranty
• Getting Started
  • Usage scenarios
    • PLC
    • Traffic Cop
    • Operator station
    • SCADA server
    • Intranet web server
  • Demos
    • Basic demo
    • Basic_... demos
    • Oven demos
    • LPC demos
• Program engineering
  • Modularity
  • Specifications
  • HMI
  • Testing
  • Hints and Heuristics
• Concepts
  • Modules
  • Points
• Config file
  • PLC section
  • Common configuration settings
  • Configuration of synch
  • planned: Configuration of real-time features
• Tools
  • matplc
  • Config editor
    • Module definition
    • Point definition
  • plctest
• Modules
  • Logic engines
    • Classicladder (external project)
    • Digital Signal Processing (including PID control)
    • IEC 61131-3 ST and IL languages
    • MAT IL language (mnemonics)
    • PLC5 emulator
    • planned: OROCOS integration
  • HMI modules
    • HMI GTK (graphical)
    • vitrine (text-based, output only)
    • kbd (text-based, input only)
  • SCADA modules
    • Data logger
    • hmiViewerServer (visual)
  • Input/Output modules
    • Common I/O options
    • 8255-based cards
    • abel (AB PLC5 and similar, over Ethernet)
    • CIF (ASi, CANopen, ControlNet, DeviceNet, Interbus, ModBus Plus, PROFIBUS, Sercos)
    • comedi I/O (various DAQ cards)
    • Modbus
    • Parallel port
    • Pontech sv203b
    • Simple UDP connection
• Custom modules
  • Languages other than C
    • Python (perhaps the most similar style of language to BASIC and VB)
    • Tcl
  • Native C
    • A basic custom module
    • Example custom module
    • Global Map (gmm) reference
    • Config (conffile) reference
    • Logging (log) reference
    • ...
    • A custom I/O module
• Contributing to the MatPLC
  • Interfacing other projects to the MatPLC
• Appendices
  • Glossary
  • sample matplc.conf
  • License terms

$Date: 2004/01/08 07:45:44 $