Introduction.

Workshop PG5
Welcome
Introduction.
Welcome
Thanks a lot for your interest in our product. Soon from now you’ll discover
how to write programs for the SAIA PCD as did many developers before
you. In fact there are 250000 PCD’s running today!
Programming a PCD is not hard at all. Although knowledge of PCD programming
is of some help it isn’t required for this Workshop. You’ll learn how
to solve simple problems step by step. Each chapter has some exercises at it’s
end so you can check yourself the progress you have made. We believe that
learning without practice is worthless. Therefore we strongly recommend to get
a PCD with a digital input card and a digital output card before you start. Further
you’ll need a cable PCD8.K111 for the examples.
We wish you good fun. PCD Support Team
What is PG5 all about?
Much like the programming languages C++, Prolog, Assembler were built for
special applications in science and industry, there are different kind of languages
which are widely used in the automation industry.
The languages are very similar from label to label, though the name for one and
the same language may change. The languages are:
• IL Instructionlist
• Graftec
• Fupla
• Kopla also called Ladder
We will see soon exactly how they work. PG5 now is a tool which allows us
create programs for a wide range off applications. But PG5 not only is an editor
for these different languages it will also help us to solve other problems we
may encounter during a project. Tasks like:
• Creating a documentation
• Debugging the program once it runs on the PCD
• Debugging the PCD
• Set-up the configuration of the PCD
• Write the program on an EPROM.
During this course we will go through all these topics and do so by using a step
by step approach. If you feel unsure about some points, then refer to the online
help included in the PG5. You will see that you wont need much more then a
little time and some cups of coffee to get familiar with the programming of
PCD's.
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