Restricting IEC 61131-3 programming languages for use on high integrity applications

• Type: Article in International Conference Proceedings Book
• Date: 2008

Authors

Mário de Sousa (Author) FEUP

Conference proceedings International

Title: Lucia lo Bello, Francisco Vasques (eds.), Proceedings of the 13th IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation (ETFA’08), Hamburg, Germany, September 15-18, 2008.

Pages: 361-368

3th IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation (ETFA’08)

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FOS: Engineering and technology > Electrical engineering, Electronic engineering, Information engineering

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DOI: 10.1109/ETFA.2008.4638419

Abstract (EN): When developing applications with high integrity requirements, the choice of programming language is of utmost importance. In fact, IEC 61508 includes a table with suggested programming languages for each SIL (Safety Integrity Level). The languages defined in IEC 61131-3 are included in this table, but are only highly recommended for the higher SILs if a subset of the languages are used. In this paper we propose restrictions and changes to the IEC 61131-3 languages that constitute a subset of the languages with the objective of making them appropriate for the development of high integrity applications.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific

No. of pages: 8