Controller brings PC and PLC together in one
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Mitsubishi Electric Automation Systems product story
Edited by the Engineeringtalk editorial team
May 15, 2006
A novel controller deeply embeds PC functionality into the Melsec System Q automation platform.
Mitsubishi Electric has made a significant new extension to its market-leading Melsec System Q automation platform.
The QO6CCPU is a C-controller, a CPU that is simply integrated into System Q, like any other extension, and which provides powerful additional PC functionality.
This means, for many applications, considerable timesaving at design/programming by using the higher language - and a saving in the number of interfaces required.
Complex tasks, communications and protocols are all simplified and customers' investments are protected against obsolescence with the use of the industry standard C++ code.
Access is easier too, with direct connection to the office/factory computer network and allows remote access to the controller via Ethernet and FTP support.
Many designers will welcome this new addition, which contains the well-known real time VxWorks operating system.
The QO6CCPU builds on this, allowing the user to program the application in C or C++ by using the easy-to-use development environment for the real time operating system - Tornado.
This brings System Q into the realm of PC-based controllers and is the first in the market to do this.
This important new addition to System Q makes the product unique in the market.
It is generally agreed that there is no more flexible programming method than C/C++.
The newer C++ object-oriented general-purpose programming language, in particular, is very widely used and has become the standard for programming.
It is regarded as easy-to-learn, extremely powerful, with good memory management and can be used to make small programs or to handle large applications.
This new controller meets a developing market need for C-controller solutions, especially for applications with a huge amount of data and number crunching.
Furthermore, this C-controller can fulfil every function or protocol that is available as a C-function, eg on the RS232 port.
With the launch of this C-controller, for the first time, the PC is truly embedded - no longer is there a PC versus PLC debate.
Users can use each in one integrated environment; PLC for many standard functions or PC programmed with the powerful C++ higher language.
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