FST4 - The unique Programming System for Automation

Now with LADDER

and

CPX Support

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 FST4 – An Overview

• Statement List and Ladder

• CPX-FEC Configuration Tool
• IF ... THEN ... ELSE
• STEP
• Multitasking
• Programs/Functions/Function Blocks
• Huge Set of Operands/Variables
• Open Hardware Interface
• Open Driver Interface/Open C Interface
• TCP/IP Support
• WEB Server

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 New features in version 4.21

• Signed/unsigned online display of operands

• 32Bit values in online display
• New STL operations [] (indexed access) and
@ (address operator)
• Support for new CPX-modules and features
• ASi driver for PS1-CP92
• Web Server: New driver setting for automatic
web page download
• New and extended function blocks

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 Statement List and Ladder

• Unreachable simple programming of

sequential processes in Statement List

• The graphical programming tool

Ladder Diagram is available too

• Both programming languages can be mixed

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 CPX-FEC Configuration Tool

• Easy configuration of the

modular Control System

• System diagnostics integrated

• Actual – Nominal – Comparison

• Parametrize and Go!

• Festo plug and work®

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 IF ... THEN ... ELSE

• Programming as you think

• Describe the process – and

program simultaneously

• Have a clear concept of SET / RESET

• Program in relation to the automation task

IF Event
THEN SET Output
IF Other Event
THEN RESET Output

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 STEP

• Unreachable simple programming of sequential

processes

• More than 75% of all automation tasks are

sequential tasks

• No other textual language can program

sequences as easy as FST

• Much more compact than any graphic tool

• Much better online help than any other method

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 Multitasking

• Unreachable simple method of multitasking

• Program and Program Status gives complete

control over simultaneous and alternative
tasks

• Up to 64 simultaneous tasks

• Clear concept of task switching

• Up to 100 function blocks may include steps

• Up to 100 functions without step without task

switch

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 Set of operands
• Almost unlimited set of operands/variables

• Up to 64 programs, 100 functions, 100

function blocks

• Up to 2048 inputs and 2048 outputs

= 4096 I/Os

• Up to 256 Timers / 256 Counters

/ 256 Registers

• Up to 160,000 Flags (10,000 Flag Words)

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 Open hardware interface

• A script language describes the access to any

hardware

• New modules can be added at any time of a

project

• Module scripts may be updated at any time of

a project

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 Open driver interface/Open C interface

• Driver interface
• The PC based concept allows to call drivers
before the FST kernel
• The driver interface is open
• New drivers can be added/updated at any time
of a project

• C interface
• Open C interface to write functions in C/C++
• Completely open development system for
high-level language

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 TCP/IP support

• FST supports Ethernet and TCP/IP for

• Real Time communication between CPUs

• Program up- and download

• Debugging

• Connection to the office world via

DDE or OPC server

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 WEB Server

Web
• WEB server is available for all CPUs

IntraNet
• Leading in WEB technology

Ethernet
• WEB server for even the smallest CPU (FC34)

Web
• WEB server works simultaneously to the
process control
Ethernet

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 FST4 is tradition and future in one

• More than 200.000 projects worldwide are

programmed with any one of the FST versions

• Thousands of FST customers worldwide

• Hundreds of experienced FST programmers

worldwide

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 Contact us

Tel: +49/711/347-0
Fax: +49/711/347-2144

E-Mail: service_international@festo.com
Internet: http://www.festo.com/

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