Data-Type Checking of IEC61131-3 ST and IL Applications

• Type: Article in International Conference Proceedings Book
• Date: 2012

Authors

Mário de Sousa (Author) FEUP

Conference proceedings International

Title: 2012 IEEE 17TH CONFERENCE ON EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES & FACTORY AUTOMATION (ETFA)

Pages: 1-8

17th IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation (ETFA)

Krakow, POLAND, SEP 17-21, 2012

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Scientific classification

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

CORDIS: Technological sciences > Engineering > Computer engineering

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DOI: 10.1109/ETFA.2012.6489534

Abstract (EN): The IEC 61508 standard recognizes the programming languages defined in IEC 61131-3 as being appropriate for safety-related applications, and suggests the use of static data type analysis of the source code. In this context, we have added a data type semantic verifier to the MatIEC compiler - an open source ST, IL and SFC code translator to ANSI C. In so doing, we have identified several issues related to the definition of the semantics of the IL and ST programming languages, as well as with the data type model defined in IEC 61131-3. In this paper we describe the issues we uncovered, explain how the data type static analyzer of the MatIEC was implemented, explain the options we took, and suggest how the IEC 61131-3 standard could be made more explicit.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific

Notes: ISSN : 1946-0740 E-ISBN : 978-1-4673-4736-5 Print ISBN: 978-1-4673-4735-8 INSPEC Accession Number: 13402446

No. of pages: 8