The innovations that TwinCAT 3 provides for automation technology range from support of new programming environments for modular engineering concepts to a high-performance runtime that actively supports the latest IT technologies such as multi-core processors. The engineering has been integrated into the state-of-the-art Microsoft Visual Studio platform, placing numerous modern software engineering tools at the automation specialist’s disposal. In order to master the ever increasing amount of software in a machine or plant in the future, the control software must be modularly structured. That approach is fully possible with TwinCAT 3 and modules can be written in several different programming languages. In addition to the established languages of IEC 61131, now extended by object orientation, further languages are now available in C/C++ and Matlab/Simulink. These modules can be distributed to different cores of a multi-core CPU in the TwinCAT real-time and can be executed deterministically, even with the smallest cycle times.
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