AW: [PLC-Simulator] Thoughts on the "Context" for our simulator

2019-10-18 Thread Bjoern Hoeper
Hi Chris, It allows building modular libraries (we already have quite a lot ready to use) which would also imply logic. The thing with the system is that C is only the implementation language for the current runtime. Everything that is modelled on top of it is generated from abstract model

AW: [PLC-Simulator] Thoughts on the "Context" for our simulator

2019-10-18 Thread Bjoern Hoeper
Hey everyone, sorry for joining the party this late. But it is rather busy times at the moment. Depending on the context maybe I can help with an existing solution: There is the runtime environment provided by the Chair of Process Control Engineering in Aachen. It is a rather complete RTE for

Re: AW: [PLC-Simulator] Thoughts on the "Context" for our simulator

2019-10-16 Thread Otto Fowler
Who is the intended user of the simulator, or users and what do they want to accomplish? Maybe if that were spelled out or people could suggest those cases, some number of cases could be agreed upon, allowing the initial effort to be done with plans for later expansion to the remaining uses cases

AW: [PLC-Simulator] Thoughts on the "Context" for our simulator

2019-10-16 Thread Strljic, Matthias Milan
Hi Chris, yeah i see the benefits of doing all this simulated PLC endpoints for a nice testing. I just meant that it is also possible to just setup an OPC UA Endpoint Server with Eclipse Milo in Java or a Python package without a real PLC behind it. So it is possible to just program and provide

AW: [PLC-Simulator] Thoughts on the "Context" for our simulator

2019-10-16 Thread Strljic, Matthias Milan
Hi Chris, sry for joining so late. What speeks against a OPC UA Server as PLC-Mok. It is not a big deal to implement it with Milo and provides a function complete OPC UA Server implementation. I Know it is not a real PLC and has no RT Cycles which restricts the possible communication. But I