Paper Info
Title
A portability study of IEC 61499: Semantics and tools
Abstract
The second edition of the IEC 61499 standard aims to clarify the interpretation ambiguities of function block's execution semantics. This resolves the pivotal issue of realizing portable and interoperable implementations of the IEC 61499 reference architecture. As the IEC 61499 standard is about entering its technology takeoff phase, these clarifications are timely and important. It is hence expected that more innovators of automation software tools, runtime environments, and control hardware will start adopting this technology. To assist such adoption, this paper presents a study of existing IEC 61499 tools' portability issues. In particular, the features of currently active IEC 61499 tools, such as FBDK, ISaGRAF, 4DIAC, and nxtStudio are outlined. Their incompatibility issues due to different execution semantics are exemplified. Moreover, it is also illustrated in this paper how these issues can be addressed by complying with the updated norms.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1109/INDIN.2014.6945553
INDIN
Keywords
Field
DocType
automation software tools,4diac tool,runtime environment,isagraf tool,fbdk,control engineering computing,distributed control,iec 61499 reference architecture,nxtstudio tool,function block execution semantics,control hardware,iec 61499 standard,fbdk tool,nxtstudio,isagraf,4diac,iec 61499,iec standards,hardware,semantics,automation
IEC 62304,Systems engineering,Software engineering,Interoperability,Computer science,Real-time computing,Automation,Implementation,Software,Software portability,Reference architecture,Semantics
Conference
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
1935-4576
2
0.39
References 
Authors
7
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Cheng Pang1399.97
Patil, S.25911.10
Chen-Wei Yang38512.79
Valeriy Vyatkin41047152.80
Anatoly Shalyto59820.06