Electrical Construction & Maintenance

What is Ladder Logic?

Programmable logic controllers (PLCs) are used extensively throughout the world. Over time, they have advanced to become more user-friendly, efficient, smaller, and less expensive. Different types of ...
Machine Design

Understanding the Shrinking Role of Ladder Logic

When learning ladder logic, I was told that some new PLC systems were moving to scripted programming languages. My instructor assured us that we would not need to know anything other than ladder logic ...
EDN

Testing and Debugging DSP Systems, Part 1

Part two explains the workings of the JTAG (IEEE 1149.1) boundary-scan technology. In software development, perhaps the most critical, yet least predictable stage in the process is debugging. Many ...
EDN

Tektronix and FS2 create real-time logic debug for Xilinx FPGAs

Tektronix and First Silicon Solutions (FS2) announced the FPGAView software package for Tektronix TLA Series logic analyzers that enables real-time debugging of Xilinx FPGAs. With FPGAView software, ...
Design-Reuse

FS2 Introduces Logic Navigator Trace and Debug Solutions

PORTLAND, OREGON, September 27, 2004 - First Silicon Solutions (FS2) today announced the availability of its Logic Navigatorâ„¢ System for embedded debug, trace and logic analysis. The Logic Navigator ...
Electrical Construction & Maintenance

The Basics of Ladder Logic

Ladder logic uses switch or relay contacts to implement Boolean expressions. In years past, ladder logic was made possible with discrete relays and was sometimes termed “relay logic.” Today most ...
Hackaday

ladder logic

On the surface, a programmable logic controller (PLC) might seem like nothing more than a generic microcontroller, perhaps outfitted to operate in industrial settings with things like high ...