METHOD FOR OPERATING AN AUTOMATION DEVICE PROCESSOR FOR USE IN THE METHOD AND AUTOMATION DEVICE OPERATING IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE METHOD

摘要

The invention relates to a method for operating an automation device (18) which comprises a processor (20) for directly executing function modules (10) and an apparatus suitable for use in the method and an apparatus operating in accordance with the method namely a processor (20) and an automation device (18) having such a processor (20) wherein a function module (10) which is selected as a component of an automation solution by means of a development environment (16) is converted into a code block (28) by means of the development environment (16) wherein the code block (28) comprises a type identifier (26) corresponding to the type of the particular function module (10) wherein inputs and outputs (12 14) of the particular function module (10) are mapped to simultaneously usable processor registers (24) in the code block (28) wherein in order to execute the automation solution a plurality of code blocks (28) is processed by the reading in of a particular code block (28) by the processor (20) and subsequent execution of the code block (28) wherein the execution of the code block (28) comprises selecting a function unit (30 34) from a plurality of function units (30 34) comprised by the processor (20) on the basis of the type identifier (26) of the code block (28) and activating the selected function unit (30 34) with the processor registers (24) specified in the code block (28).