IDE4PLC

A libre Programming Software for PLC comply with IEC 61131-3.

License

Copyright 2012-2017 Eric Nicolás Pernia.

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU Lesser General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License along with this program. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.

For more information about the license, read the files
COPYING.LESSER.txt and COPYING.txt located in the 
IDE4PLC_LICENSE directory.

Project information

• Web sites:
  • https://ide4plc.org/
  • http://www.proyecto-ciaa.com.ar/devwiki/doku.php?id=desarrollo:software-plc
• IDE4PLC project E-mail: ide4plc@gmail.com
• Soft-PLC development group of CIAA project: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/ciaa-software-plc

About the author

• Ing. Eric Nicolás Pernia (ericpernia@gmail.com). Quilmes, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
• Professor-Researcher at Universidad Nacional de Quilmes (UNQ).
• Responsible for Software-PLC in CIAA Project.

Collaborator in software design and coding

• Dr. Lic. Carlos Lombardi.
• Sub-responsable for Software-PLC in CIAA Project.

Collaborators in the port of the Firmware of IDE4PLC to the EDU-CIAA-NXP

• Mariano Cerdeiro. Responsible for Firmware in CIAA Project.
• Pablo Ridolfi. Responsible for Hardware in CIAA Project.
• Juan Cecconi. Sub-responsable for CIAA-IDE in CIAA Project.
• Leandro Kollenberger.

Collaborators in software diffusion and testing

• Gerardo Sager.
• María de los Angeles Gómez López.

Collaborator in software testing and documentation

• Marcelo Chichiri.

Notes of the current release, 1.0.5

• Release date: 2017/07/15.
• Supported Operative Systems: GNU/Linux x86, GNU/Linux x64 and Windows (x86 and x64).
• Supported boards: CIAA-NXP y EDU-CIAA-NXP.
• Added detection of data types and indication of errors.
• Internationalization of the GUI, allowing to change between English and Spanish.

This software is under development. The present version can program the platforms CIAA-NXP and EDU-CIAA-NXP in LADDER DIAGRAM IEC 61131-3 language.

The generated program called MAIN_TASK runs in a single periodic task every 20 ms. This task triggers a program organization unit (POU) of type Program called MAIN_PROGRAM.

MAIN_PROGRAM is the only POU that allows modifying the program, contains previously declared interface variables and Digital Outputs, and some internal variables.

In the CIAA-NXP the Digital Inputs are I0 to I7 and the Digital Outputs are from Q0 to Q7. Not support for analog inputs or outputs yet.

In the EDU-CIAA-NXP the Digital Inputs are TEC1 to TEC4 and the Digital Outputs correspond to LEDR, LEDG, LEDB, LED1, LED2 And LED3. Not support for analog inputs or outputs yet.

How to "install" IDE4PLC?

Please read "docs/ide4plc-install_en.md" or "docs/ide4plc-install_es.md".

How to open IDE4PLC?

To open it you must run the Pharo-Smalltak environment:

• Linux: Open a terminal and run ./ide4plc
• Windows: Open executale file ide4plc.exe

Using IDE4PLC

Open IDE4PLC, create a program in LADDER DIAGRAM using the POUs editor (which opens from the corresponding icon).

• Generate C code: Generate the C code in the folder: "IDE4PLC/IDE4PLC_user_projects/plc_application".
• Build: Executes the "make" command that compiles the C code ito a binary file.
• Download: Run the "make download" command that downloads binary file to the microcontroller flash.
• Generate C, Build and Download code: Execute all 3 steps above.
• Clean: Execute the "make clean" command that deletes the files generated by the previous C compilation. Required when you change the target board.