Control Design’s team of industry professionals stress the importance of maintainability, support and adherence to established standards like IEC 61131-3 in this article. The capability to upload ...

Until recently, programming and the integration of controls and motion components usually required several programming languages. Ladder logic was used for the control logic of a PLC and for the ...

How to choose between programmable logic controllers and industrial PCs. While programmable logic controllers (PLCs) have long been the cornerstone of industrial control systems due to their ...

Capturing data signals during embedded system design can prove challenging. Modern logic analyzers make data acquisition tasks easier by providing advanced triggering capabilities that get to the ...

2. Special Local Control. Any local control scheme not implemented in a MMR’s firmware can be accomplished with the logic engine, which often requires some additional digital inputs.

Thomson's Movotrak CTU features collision detection settings for groundbreaking programming and control benefits.

Inversion of control is a software design principle that asserts a program can benefit in terms of pluggability, testability, usability and loose coupling if the management of an application's flow is ...

Topics include program design, algorithm design, number systems, classes and objects, methods (functions), control structures, arrays, and interactive input/output. Lecture two hours, technical ...

Meet Primo: a physical programming interface that teaches children programming logic while they control the movements of an Arduino-powered robot. All of Primo's electronics are concealed inside ...