Method and communications system for the configuration of a communications module containing a logic component

US8316168B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• PHOENIX CONTACT GMBH & CO. KG · DE

Inventors

• Claus Peter Kuehnl · Diepholz, DE
• Klas Hellmann · Hameln, DE
• Johannes Kalhoff · Blomberg, DE
• Holger Meyer · Seevetal, DE
• Dietmar Krumsiek · Emmerthal, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jan 15, 2010
• Grant date: Nov 20, 2012
• Expiry date: Jun 9, 2031

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y02P90/02
• WIPO field: Control
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

The invention relates to a method according to which a cycle-oriented control program generated for a programmable logic controller (110) is at least partially converted into a code that may be executed by a logic component (80) of a communications module (10), such that at least the converted program segment of the cycle-oriented control program may be executed in a cycle-free manner. Cycle-free or virtually cycle-free means that at least some of the implemented control functions and system functions may be executed in a parallel fashion and therefore more quickly than would be the case if the cycle-oriented control program were executed by the PLC (110).