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Basic Ladder Diagrams Section 4-3
The following diagram contains only two logic blocks as shown. It is not nec-
essary to further separate block b components, because it can be coded
directly using only AND and OR.
Although the following diagram is similar to the one above, block b in the dia-
gram below cannot be coded without separating it into two blocks combined
with OR LOAD. In this example, the three blocks have been coded first and
then OR LOAD has been used to combine the last two blocks followed by
AND LOAD to combine the execution condition produced by the OR LOAD
with the execution condition of block a.
When coding the logic block instructions together at the end of the logic
blocks they are combining, they must, as shown below, be coded in reverse
order, i.e., the logic block instruction for the last two blocks is coded first, fol-
lowed by the one to combine the execution condition resulting from the first
logic block instruction and the execution condition of the logic block third from
the end, and on back to the first logic block that is being combined.
00000 00001 00002 00003
00201
10001
00004
Block
a
Block
b
Address Instruction Operands
00000 LD 00000
00001 AND NOT 00001
00002 LD 00002
00003 AND 00003
00004 OR 00201
00005 OR 00004
00006 AND LD
00007 OUT 10001
00000 00001 00002 00003
10002
00004 00202
Block
a
Block
b
Block
b2
Block
b1
Address Instruction Operands
00000 LD NOT 00000
00001 AND 00001
00002 LD 00002
00003 AND NOT 00003
00004 LD NOT 00004
00005 AND 00202
00006 OR LD
00007 AND LD
00008 OUT 10002