Variable Monitoring

The Variable Dictionary contains all the IEC 61131-3 variables needed by the application. The variables are listed by categories corresponding to the declared programs, functions and function blocks.

When your application is running: (Figure 1)

• All variables in the Dictionary are animated 1 To better track variables and expressions of the PLC programs in Test mode, the KAS-IDE dynamically computes their value along with the program execution and display the result in gray boxes beside their usage in the instruction lines of the IEC 61131-3 editor. with real-time values displayed in the Value column (see call out ).
• A specific column is used to indicate the initial values of all variables .

Figure 1: Variable Dictionary