Create a Program

Once the project has been created and the EtherCAT Ethernet ofr Control Automation Technology. EtherCAT® is an open, high-performance Ethernet-based fieldbus system. The development goal of EtherCAT is to apply Ethernet to automation applications which require short data update times (also called cycle times) with low communication jitter (for synchronization purposes) and low hardware costs. devices have been defined, a program The act of performing a sequence of instructions or commands. may be created.

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• The KAS-IDE Kollmorgen Automation Suite - Integrated Development Environment programming environment Environment objects are global objects that exist before the execution of the script. Typically, they are global objects of Astrolab that can be accessed from the script. provides language dedicated editors for:

  • Free Form Ladder Diagram (FFLD) Editor
  • Function Block Diagram (FBD) Editor
  • Sequential Function Chart (SFC) Editor
  • Structured Text (ST) / Instruction List (IL) Editor

1. Right-click the Programs item in the project tree and select the language to use.
   
2. Name the program.
   
3. Click Ok to create the program and open the language-specific editor.
   

The empty program is ready for you to add functions and function blocks.

Other information you may need to complete your program includes:

• Overview: Create Variables
• Overview: Create and/or Call Functions & Function Blocks
• Overview: Using Constants
• Overview: Map Input & Output to Variables

See IEC 61131-3 Editors in the Programs: Structure and Syntax section for more in-depth information on the programming languages.