Easy Electronics xLogic Micro PLC - Blocks and Block Numbers

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TheillustrationabovewithnumberedAIinputsshowstheconceptualusageoftheinputs,nottheactual
physicalmarkingsonthemodule.
xLogic'sconnectors
ThetermconnectorreferstoallconnectionsandstatesinxLogic.
ThedigitalI/Ostatuscanbe'0'or'1'.Status'0'meansthattheinputdoesnotcarryaspecificvoltage.
Status'1'meansthattheinputdoescarryaspecificvoltage.
The'hi','lo'connectorshavebeenintroducedtomakeiteasierforyoutocreatethe
circuitprogram:
'hi'(high)isassignedthestatus'1',
'lo'(low)isassignedthestatus'0'.
Youdonothavetousealloftheconnectorsofablock.Thecircuitprogramautomaticallyassignsthe
unusedconnectorsastatusthatensuresproperfunctioningoftherelevantblock.Forinformationonthe
meaningoftheterm"block",refertothetopicon"Blocksandblocknumbers".
5.2Blocksandblocknumbers
ThischaptershowsyouhowtousexLogicelementstocreatecomplexcircuitsandhowblocksandI/O
areinterconnected.
Inthetopic"FromcircuitdiagramtoxLogicProgram"youwilllearnhowtotransformaconventional
circuitintoaxLogiccircuitprogram.
Blocks
AblockinxLogicrepresentsafunctionthatisusedtoconvertinputinformationintooutputinformation.
Previouslyyouhadtowiretheindividualelementsinacontrolcabinetorterminalbox.
Whenyoucreatethecircuitprogram,youinterconnecttheblocks.Todoso,simplyselecttheconnection
yourequirefromthe Co menu.Themenuname Co isanabbreviationoftheterm"Connector".
Logicoperations
Themostelementaryblocksarethelogicoperations:
● AND
● OR
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