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| Re: build a forte in PLC not in list of already supported PLCS [message #1810548 is a reply to message #1810543] |
Tue, 13 August 2019 11:32   |
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I had a quick look on the PLC you've mentioned. I think for that you would need the support of the vendor. Other PLCs which are a bit more open it is rather easy. As we ported 4diac FORTE to many devices I can say, when the information Martin mentions, is available it is pretty straight forward.
The other option that is also often considered is to run 4diac FORTE on another device and use some legacy communication to interact with the existing PLC. This has some advantages especially in an brownfield environment. 4diac FORTE is rather flexible and can easily be extended with different communication protocols. For your example with bacnet I can say that there is currently a Bachelor's thesis under work at TU Vienna which is exactly working on that.
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| Re: build a forte in PLC not in list of already supported PLCS [message #1810576 is a reply to message #1810571] |
Tue, 13 August 2019 15:56 |
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I have done first experiments with an older version of the C Controller CPU module. I've just been on the web-page of Mitsubishi Electric and it looks like the have an update version of this CPU module of the MELSEC iQ-R Series [1]. What I could see when I briefly looked over the page is that 4diac FORTE should be pretty easy to port to the module. We already have vxWorks support so this can be used as starting point. The only thing that would need a bit of work would be to implement the code for accessing the IOs. But according to the text on the web-page there is a library provided for that.
Anyhow we are very interested in expanding our hardware support. So if you have 4diac FORTE running on currently not listed hardware we are happy to hear about your experience. Also if you have ports to hardware you like to contribute let us know. Finally we are also helping to port.
Cheers,
Alois
[1] https://www.mitsubishielectric.com/fa/products/cnt/plcr/pmerit/cpu/c_cont.html
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| Re: build a forte in PLC not in list of already supported PLCS [message #1810598 is a reply to message #1810597] |
Wed, 14 August 2019 07:29 |
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I did only a qick search and this was the MELESEC iQ-R Series showed me the first with a C-Controller CPU. For quick results you need a CPU where Mitsubishi Electric allows you to run C++ programs. If you find CPUs from the other series which allows that than you can use them too. If you are ensure feel free to post links here. For the other we would need support from Mitsubishi Electric. But if that is available I think it would be possible. Does anybody here in the forum have contacts to Mitsubishi Electric to ask?
Not sure if we have any docs. However building for vxWorks should be pretty straight forward. You need the Windriver gcc tool-chain for the controller. For the rest our CMake files should be take care of and the result should be a loadable vxWorks module.
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